>>FWIW, I was raised on Milne--the books, not the movie...
Those were different days... even though Arnold in Kindergarten Cop read kids to sleep with a passage from Milne, I suspect fewer kids are charmed these days by those antique interactions. Swallows and Amazons, ditto. More likely to involve excited million-mile-per-second gabble or shorthand twittering about Kardashians behaving badly these days.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
