Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Rabbit, Eeyore and Piglet have some wonderful stories to tell! From Pooh and his honey to Eeyore and his lost tail, these adventures are timeless.

Nothing like visiting your childhood friends all over again. That is what this audiobook did for me! These are such magical stories. Truly takes you on a trip to the hundred acre wood with all the characters and all the wonderful fun adventures.

Joel Froomkin did a fantastic job. I loved all the voices, except for piglet. I just thought piglet didn’t fit. But, he was spot on for all the other characters.

Need a book which will travel you down memory lane…THIS IS IT! Grab your copy today.

I received this novel from the publisher for a honest review. ( )

Reading Level: 3rd-5th grades
Awards: Notable Children's Recordings (2004)

Ten-stories-in-a-story for children, in which Pooh Bear and his associates go on adventures. They also interact from time-to-time with the audience surrogate, Christopher Robin.

Well, for being written nearly 100 years ago(!), this book only barely feels that old. All characters are male except for the mother, of course, and young Christopher Robin shoots a gun toward his friends, but that's rather surprisingly the bulk of the datedness. Winnie-the-Pooh achieves a perfect mix of adult-with-child humor (my favorite was a joke about the letters written on pencils)... but I also found a lot of characters did or said things that would make me hesitant to actually be their friend (a bit too much "laughing at" rather than "laughing with"). So a bit of a mixed bag for me, really. Even so, I'm glad to have read this touchstone work! ( )

I picked this up for a reread because, in [b:Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle|1731531|Russell M. Nelson Father, Surgeon, Apostle|Spencer J. Condie|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1187506412s/1731531.jpg|1729012], someone remembered their mother would read the book out loud on family road trips and sometimes had to stop in the middle to finish laughing.

Since it had been years, I wasn't sure it was really that funny and set out to rediscover for myself.

This book just gets better and better as you age. The humor is delightful, the characters simple, but with a tender depth that children usually possess, and the visit to childhood is needed. I did, indeed, find myself laughing on the treadmill at the gym. I'm sure some of the charm is nostalgia, but it is done well. I love the timidity of Piglet, the dour depression of Eeyore, and the impossible positivism of Pooh and the pompousness of "Wol."

I'm sure there is a genius paper to be written about this phenomenon somewhere inside someone (and maybe it has already been done), but here's hoping I can sometime find something that will completely deconstruct the genius of this book. ( )

Whinnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself, and Christopher Robin lived behind a green door in another parto of the wood. In this same wood lived Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Little Roo, and Eeyore. The stories are about these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and really, quite thrilling, no matter how young or how old you may be.