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Biff chip and kipper books11/8/2023 The history of children’s literature is littered with eagle-eyed moral guardians convinced they have uncovered corrupting influences, and just as many authors and illustrators who have clearly entertained themselves by seeing what they can get away with. ‘The original Pooh was apparently named after a swan, though it’s hard to imagine AA Milne didn’t know what he was doing.’ Photograph: Allstar/Disney/Sportsphoto Ltd At least, according to Twitter, where this week someone claimed to have found a background picture in the popular Biff, Chip and Kipper series that showed a group of moustachioed men entering a clump of bushes, only to be discovered in the next scene by a granny so shocked at what she saw that her glasses fell off. These days, our children’s primary school books are apparently rife with subliminal images of cottaging, predatory priests and references to STDs. Generations of kids have squealed with delight at the scatological bear’s antics (particularly the one in which Pooh gets stuck in a tight hole), before they graduate to the unintended hilarity of all the Dicks, Fannys and Tittys in other well-loved 20th-century classics. The original Pooh was apparently named after a swan, though it’s hard to imagine AA Milne didn’t know what he was doing. “Christopher Robin went up the stairs, trailing Pooh behind him.” My son considered this the all-time funniest line in literature when he was small – it’s fortunate he never discovered the 90s spin-off Cooking With Pooh (still available from Amazon, complete with set of shaped cookie-cutters, for those who are into that sort of thing).
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