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protecting an offspring for months after borth literally within her body. Along with Rabbit, Eeyore, and Owl, Kanga is one of the four "staid" adult characters, in contrast to the adolescent Tigger (who still need a mother's firm hand, lent by Kanga), baby Roo, and somewhere-in-between Pooh and
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Piglet. Yarbrough considers her to be the only "adult" in the forest. Despite her staid appearance, however, Kanga fully participates in the nonsensical humor and physicality of the stories, Pooh is envious of her jumping.
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Like many other characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Kanga is associated with a stuffed toy that was an early childhood present to Milne's son,
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Masculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne
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Most critics agree that Kanga reflects the British nanny type, possibly the "Nanny" described in Christopher Milne's autobiography,
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Motherly role of Kanga is evident in her behavior towards other characters. Kanga plays the role of a mother: unlike the wise
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Kanga, like Tigger, is an outsider not quite fitting in with the rest of the forest crowd.
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Like other characters in the Milne's children books, Kanga is portrayed in an "
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Index

Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
Kangaroo joey
Female
Roo
A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
Roo
pouch
Tigger

Christopher Robin Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
Eeyore
Piglet
Tigger
The Enchanted Places
impressionist
kangaroo
Owl
Rabbit
Connolly 1995
Connolly 1995
Connolly 1995
Stanger 1987
Nelson 1971
Nelson 1971

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