The Hundred Acre Wood, Invaded

Wall Street Journal ^ | OCTOBER 15, 2009 | CHRISTINE ROSEN

[goodwithagun]

Why do these people insist upon destroying my childhood. I just recently found out that the Letter People were changed in the 90’s to reflect a more politically correct society. What a load of crap.

[50sDad]

“All hail England. We ruled the world and it's oceans with an iron hand for several hundred years, and finally we are reduced to being your crabby old fusspot grandmother.”

[Tax-chick]

The original stories had Kanga.

[PGR88]

And of course, Piglet has been gay all along, but now they will probably modernize him also.

I see him co-habitating with some other male piglets (or even some other species) to hatch a brood of chicks abandoned by their violent and unstable conservative father and feckless, traditional mother.

[kalee]

ping

[ClearCase_guy]

And in the second authorized sequel, do we find out that Lottie is a lesbian?

[TheThinker]

At one particularly low point in the narrative the reader is even subjected to a glimpse of protean otter lust, as Lottie "lowered her voice and said a little huskily: 'I thought maybe you, Eeyore.' "

I think I'll pass.

[tet68]

and roo.

[backhoe]

Aggh! My childhood pals and the Three-Acre Wood, corrupted...

[secret garden]

Bump for later read. BTW, I saw Rabbit as the bossy old crank character.

[Tax-chick]

Quite so. In the Recorded Book, they had chirpy Aussie accents.

[listenhillary]

Do otters eat beavers?

[gardengirl]

Try reading a pc version of Nancy Drew/ Hardy Boys. Bleh!

And try, just try finding a copy of Little Black Sambo.

If you have any old copies of either, you better hang on to them! LOL

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***our stuffed hero, a teddy bear that belongs to a young boy named Christopher Robin, ****

Oh I miss Calvin and Hobbes!

(Dont fret, I have the complete works of Calvin an Hobbes)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

...boastful, bossy otter Obama who emerges from a boggy section of the Hundred Acre Wood United States to prod and scold its inhabitants. If the notion of a modern-style Super-nanny in the Hundred Acre Wood United States sounds disconcerting, it is. And it doesn't help that Lottie Obama is one annoying otter.

I see this as a parable for our times.

[Roos_Girl]

and roo

I named my oldest dog Roo and hence my screen name. :)

[Jim Noble]

Right, and Kanga would kick ass on anyone messing with Little Roo.

I'm much less concerned about an authorized sequel (even with Otter) than I am about the Disneypooh, which is nauseating.

[MissEdie]

I had that same problem with trying to find the Complete Tales of Uncle Remus. The book I found in a local book store had been “abridged”, AKA re-written so it could be more PC.

[thulldud]

Almost right. He didn’t come from a boggy section of the United States, but other than that, spot on.