Only Latin Book to Crack the New York Times Best Seller List
Winnie the Pooh was translated to Latin and released by Dr. Alexander Lenard in 1960. The Latin version was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 20 weeks. More than 125, 000 copies were sold. The translated book showed how popular “Winnie the Pooh” was. This adventurous book has been translated into more than 50 different Languages, as well as Afrikaans, Czech, Finnish, and Yiddish.
The English novelist Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) author of the story Winnie the Pooh, here with his son Christopher Robin Milner (1920-1996), photo by Howard Coster, 1926 – English novelist Alan Alexander Milne who wrote the story of Winnie the Pooh (1926) here with his son Christopher Robin Milner, picture by Howard Coster, 1926 – father and child father and child (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)
The first Winnie the Pooh book, a collection of Milne’s Pooh stories from the Evening News sold 150,000 copies in the United States when it was published in 1926. Over 35,000 copies were also sold in the UK. It became the most popular of Milne’s work comprising of poems, essays, screenplays, and novels.