Alan Alexander Milne [miln] was born in London on January 18th, 1882. His father was the headmaster of a a small preparatory school. One of the teachers at the 10 school was the famous writer H. G. Wells. Milne, the youngest of the family's three sons, went to Westminster School at the age of 11 and then went on to Cambridge to become a mathematician [,ma0əmətijn]. But he never did. Instead he became editor ['edita] of the university's journal ['d33:nl] Granta in which he pub- lished some of his light humorous poems. Then he went to London hoping to earn his living as a writer. By and by London magazines began to publish his witty works, and in 1905 he pub- lished his first book, a shilling paperback collection of humorous essays ['eseiz]. Aged only 24 he was given a post of assistant editor of the famous magazine Punch,2 at the salary of 5 pounds a week - a lot of money at that time. In 1913 he married Dorothy de Selincourt (Daphne ['dafn1] to her friends) and the following year, when the war broke out, he joined the army. At the front line he got ill and had to return home, to London. The Milnes' only child was born on August 21st, 1920. Mrs Milne had hoped for a girl, to be called Rosemary … instead she presented her husband with a lovely, fair-haired and adorable son, Christopher Rob- in. The Milnes bought him a teddy bear for his first birthday. The teddy bear was soon named Winnie, af- ter a real-life bear that lived at London Zoo. preparatory (prep) school - a private school in Britain for children between ages of and 13, where they are made ready to go to a school for older pupils 2Punch - a British weekly magazine (1841-1992) known for its humorous articles its literary criticismAA, Milne wrote a lot of poems for Christopher Robin and about him, some of the poems became very popular songs, One rainy summer Milne rented a house in the country, He took with him penoll and an exercise book, and in eleven days wrote so many children's pems that they filled a book, It was published in 1024 under the name When We Were Very Young and sold half a million coples! In 1925 the Milnes bought a farm in Sussex, which they used for weekends away from London, From this old house it was a short walk over a bridge into the Ashdown fefdaon] Porest where Christopher Robin and his teddy, now known by the name of Winnie-the-Pooh or Pooh-bear, used to play, Each daily adven- ture in the foreat gave A. A, Milne more material for his now famous book Winnle the Pooh published in 1926, The illustrations to it were done by Brnest Shepard, who visited the Milne family in their farmhouse and drew quite a few aketches of Christopher Robin with his bear, the bridge nearby where the two played "Poohaticks",' and all the well-loved Pooh charncters and places. A,A, Milne's secret for success was that he could get inside the mind of child, He used his storytelling talents to desoribe how one little boy so loved his teddy bear that for him at least the toy animal came alive, After the book Winnte the Pooh A, A, Milne wrote another books of children's vernes fvainiz] Now We Are Six and The House at Pooh Corner which sold to a walting public in millions of copies, 'The four Pooh books and Milne's enjoyable play Toad of Toad Hall are still as popular today as they were many years ago when they were written, Chriatopher Milne (he no longer uses the name Robin) spent six years in the army during the war, Then he ran a bookshop in Dartmouth [datmoo] until he retired to live in the countryside, What happened to Winntethe Pooh? Well, the bear was put into a glass ase with all the other toy antmals like beyore fho the donkey and little Piglet |piglet), at the Milnes' house in London when Christopher went off to school in 1080, Then, when the war came, the toys were 'evnouated' h some American publishing houses, Напиши небольшое сочинение по этому тексту ( 9-10 небольших предложений) с коротким планом