How WINNIE THE POOH Was Translated into Latin & Became a Best-Seller

[beamjockey]

From the April 21, 1961 issue of Life, page 61: Roman Holiday for a Bashful Bear Named Winnie: Latin Version of Children's Classic Is the Surprise Best-Seller of 1961.

Comments

[erik]

Are you aware of the existence of Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit: How the Grinch Stole Christmas in Latin?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Now I am, I guess.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I used to have a copy of that. I don't know what happened to it. All my other Winnie he Pooh books are still on my shelves.

Love, C.

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

I'd been led to believe that Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis was the first new (or newly translated) work published in Latin in many years (like centuries).

According to Wikipedia, the same work has also been translated into Ancient Greek as Ἅρειος Ποτὴρ καὶ ἡ τοῦ φιλοσόφου λίθος.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

I can remember at least *seeing* a copy of Winnie ille Pu but I did not buy it. I took Latin in high school, beginning the year after that was published, so it may have been in the classroom.