Crafting a Winnie-the-Pooh for 2026
Presenter Bio
Katharine Kittredge teaches courses in Children's Literature, Science Fiction and Graphic Novels at Ithaca College. She has published a wide range of articles in the field including essays on bullying in pre-Victorian England, sentient dolls, middle grade fiction about Asian Americans and the connection between E. Nesbit and Edward Eager. She is passionate about using comics as a basis for students' experiential learning/community service and playing ice hockey in the Senior Men's Leagues in Binghamton, NY.
Session
Critical Perspectives on Pooh
Start Date
11-7-2026 1:45 PM
End Date
11-7-2026 3:00 PM
Abstract
Creating a new edition is an extremely intimate way to engage with a classic work of fiction. Over the course of the project, editors find themselves manually entering every word of the text into a new document and pondering the full range of the author’s life, works, reading, and relationships. This produces the sensation of drifting back in time as they try to understand a moment of history--and another person’s life within that moment--that is inevitably radically different from their own. In this presentation we will talk about the joys and challenges we experienced while editing a Broadview Edition of Winnie-the-Pooh scheduled for publication on the hundredth anniversary of the original’s release.
Crafting a Winnie-the-Pooh for 2026
Creating a new edition is an extremely intimate way to engage with a classic work of fiction. Over the course of the project, editors find themselves manually entering every word of the text into a new document and pondering the full range of the author’s life, works, reading, and relationships. This produces the sensation of drifting back in time as they try to understand a moment of history--and another person’s life within that moment--that is inevitably radically different from their own. In this presentation we will talk about the joys and challenges we experienced while editing a Broadview Edition of Winnie-the-Pooh scheduled for publication on the hundredth anniversary of the original’s release.