Word: heffalump
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...written a book. This is the age of dreadful domestic disclosure (Elliott Roosevelt nipping at Eleanor in the guise of historian; Nigel Nicolson vicariously reveling in the vagaries of V. Sackville-West). A friend of Pooh therefore at first approaches Enchanted Places the way Piglet crept up on the Heffalump trap: full of horrible fascination but ready to run for his life...
...said a pink Heffalump. "That sounds like it could be very funny." Owl nodded sagely...
...cloying cuteness cannot be rendered in the sober Latin tongue. The tone of the translation is innocently serious, childlike rather than childish, and its style is graceful and frequently inspired. Milne's names and phrases take on a rich new intonation in Lenard's Latin. Heffalumpum (for Heffalump) sounds like the name of a dirty German town transliterated by Tacitus, lor (for Eeyore) might be a monster out of a Persian legend...
...Heffalumps & Wallaboos. The verses and stories that were to be When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, were based on the doings of his three-year-old son, Christopher Robin Milne,* who insisted on calling himself Billy Moon. As Christopher Robin, Billy eventually became a fixture in thousands of nurseries in England and the U.S. If he went to the zoo or to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, his father put it all into rhyme. Even his evening prayers ("Oh! God Bless Daddy -I quite...