Winnie-the-Pooh

Written by A. A. Milne

Narrated by B. J. Harrison

The complete charm, wit and humor of A. A. Milne’s classic is completely realized in this unabridged recording. Join Rabbit, Piglet, Owl and the rest of the gang as they help our favorite bear of very little brain negotiate the Hundred Acre Wood.

Veteran narrator B.J. Harrison brings the characters to life charmingly, while Milne’s sidebars to his son stir up the special memories of reading a good book to a child. A wonderful bundle of Hundred Acre heaven, this audiobook is sure to please adults and children alike.

• Language: English
• Publisher: B.J. Harrison
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781950524990

A. A. Milne

A.A.Milne was born in London in 1882 and became a highly successful writer of plays, poems and novels. He based Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and friends on the real nursery toys of his son Christopher Robin and published the first book of their adventures together in 1926. Since then, Pooh has become a world-famous bear, and Milne’s stories have been translated into seventy-two languages.

Reviews for Winnie-the-Pooh

[rbeene-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A childhood favorite.

[daisy_may-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Delightful, and full of witty, gentle humour. I'm so glad I've finally read it properly, rather than just skimming through, and surprised it's taken me so long to do so.

[heatherlinc · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This childhood favourite still has appeal nearly 50 (ugh!) years later.

[wanderlustlover_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Summer 2018, audiobooks:

I love this book. I really do. I grew up on the love of my mother for these original books, and every derivation from there (as well as the same of Charlie Brown). But. This was the worst narrator I've experienced in the whole of the something like over 100 I've listened to in the last 3-4 years. It was so horrid I was cringing most of the way through this. Definitely after ever line from piglet.

[bookslesstravelled · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A fun children's book. Good as a bedtime story.

[fredreeca · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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.

[seriousgrace · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I had forgotten Winnie-the-Pooh started off as Edward Bear. Edward is a respectable name for a loveable, if not absent minded, practical, and decent bear. I didn't know Pooh was a swan until Christopher Robin had other ideas and Winnie-ther-Pooh Bear was born. Who doesn't know Pooh and his woodland mates: Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Roo? The adventures they have in Hundred Acre Wood are legendary. To bring you back down memory lane- Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's door. Pooh and Piglet search for a Woozie. Eeyore misplaces his tail. Piglet is rescued during a flood. Pooh and Piglet want to trap a Heffalump. The gang goes looking for the North Pole. Eeyore has a birthday...Every story has Pooh being slow-witted and honey-sweet. In addition to being nice and thoughtful Pooh has the attitude of Ready for Anything. We could all learn a thing or two from Winnie-the-Pooh.

[dknight0918 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

First book I am reading to my daughter, Camila.

We enjoyed it but where is Tigger?

[bookbrig-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I checked out a full cast recording of this and The House at Pooh Corner, and it's lovely. Stephen Fry does a fantastic Pooh voice, and Judi Dench is an excellent Kanga.

Even though it's been years since I've read the stories, I find myself remembering them as they go along. So fun!

[bobbybslax · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A delightful collection of stories for any age. They encapsulate the mind of a child and the adventures they create. It tells of the stories that fathers recount for their sons, and manages to put in some charming wit for anyone that isn't Christopher Robin's age. It's a classic.

[tnaewwf123 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

To be honest, reading this story broke my heart. See, the Disney variant of Pooh is something etched in my mind ever since I was a child. My parents had never read these stories to me, so I was excited to finally have an excuse to see the source material for these characters. Do not get me wrong; the characters all act as they do in the Disney version (sans Tigger who is not included). My problem comes from the fact that none of the stories felt to build to anything, and made me ask ‘Who Cares?’ when reading them. I kept feeling that any of these adventures could have been the last, and the only reason it stops when it does is because the author got bored. Maybe once I get past the shock of the differences, I can try to get through this collection again since the stories are not poorly written or anything like that. For now, though, I have no interest in checking it or the sequels out from my library.

[dasam-5 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A delightful children’s book I never read as a child or to a child. Never too late and not a minute too soon.

[carlathelibrarian · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed reading this book again, especially with the movie Christopher Robin coming out. I read the 80th Anniversary Edition (it came out in 2006) which means that this book is close to celebrating its 100th Anniversary and is just as inviting to children today as it was then. The book is made up of chapters, which are actually individual stories. Winnie-The-Pooh was actually called Edward Bear, and Christopher Robin named him Winnie the Pooh after seeing Winnie the Bear at the zoo. All the characters I remember were in the book, stuffed animals Piglet, Kanga and Roo, real animals Rabbit and Owl. Tigger is not in this book, he appeared in the second one. Children will enjoy these stories about these talking animals and their friend Christopher Robin. They are constantly having adventures or getting themselves in trouble. Such fun! Reading one story a night before bedtime would help introduce a new generation to Winnie-The-Pooh. The illustrations are reproductions from the original watercolours done by Ernest H. Shepard and are so whimsical and bring back an earlier, easygoing time.I didn’t remember the songs that Pooh made up in the story, but I still remember the songs from the Disney movie. My mother bought me a copy of the soundtrack on LP and I listened to it over and over. I loved those songs. I am happy that I got a chance to read it again.

[isatyajeet · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This...this teaches you life!

[cassiewinters-2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Disney film stayed very true to this book, but there is a magic in reading the story instead. I enjoyed this immensely and would recommend it to anyone that has seen the films or anyone looking for wholesome tales to tell their children. I was more than pleased with this book and glad it is one of the books I finally read even if it was as an adult.

[liscarey · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, and all their friends have adventures in the woods and meadows around Christopher Robin's home. Eeyore is always depressed but included in the friends' adventures. Pooh has, as he himself says, very little brain, and he loves his honey, but he tries to be kind and generous, even if he doesn't always get it right. Owl lives in the Hundred Acre Wood, and everyone knows he's the wisest of them, even if perhaps he doesn't know quite as much as he might. All the friends are distressed and alarmed, and perhaps a little jealous, because of the arrival in their forest of Kanga, and her tiny child, Roo, whom she carries in her pocket.

These are delightful stories that most adults will remember from childhood, and Peter Dennis reads them beautifully.

Recommended.

I bought this audiobook.

[cyderry · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Another Classic that I really thought I would enjoy since I am an arctophile (a person who collects or is very fond of teddy bears) but imagine my surprise when I didn't like it.I don't know whether it was the treatment that Winnie received or the writing, but not a favorite for me.

[razinha-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a book I should have read already. And it is one I should have read to my children...but I didn't. Well...not all of them. More's the pity, because it is so delightfully innocent and charming. I've seen, over the years, much backlash on Disney's take, but I think they captured Pooh well. I admit that all of the voices in my head as I read this were theirs - Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway and Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Hal Smith, Ralph Wright and Peter Cullen... But not Paul Winchell...seems I must read more to see when Tigger appears.Wonderful. And about time.

[purplequeennl · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I read this to my youngest child, who is 9 years old. This was a childhood book for me and although I remembered some of the stories I hadn't remembered all. It is dated in that the sentences are so long, and the way it is worded. I hadn't realised either that it is set up as though someone is telling a child the stories. I found that made it a little disjointed.

Some of the dialogue is deliberately messy in an attempt to humour, but it seemed to confuse rather than be funny, although that is as much down to the reader and their ability to understand the intention.

We still enjoyed the stories and illustrations, and the different defined characters. As an adult I read far more into the characters and stories than I would have perceived as a child. Like how Eeyore is so down and negative all the time, and how everyone ignores this about him, and how Rabbit was against the arrival of Kanga & Roo in the forest and tried to force them to leave in quite a drastic, aggressive way - kidnapping Roo and holding him hostage. It sheds a very different story of the dreaming remembrances of my childhood.

[kristelh_15 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Children's stories about a boy and his stuffies. The characters in this story; Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo. The stories are set int he 100 acre woods (England). Pooh is naive and slow-witted, but he is also friendly, thoughtful, and steadfast. Pooh does have ideas driven by common sense. These include riding in Christopher Robin's umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood, discovering "the North Pole" by picking it up to help fish Roo out of the river, inventing the game of Poohsticks, and getting Eeyore out of the river by dropping a large rock on one side of him to wash him towards the bank.Pooh is also a talented poet, and the stories are frequently punctuated by his poems and "hums." This story addresses anxieties, kindness, empathy and friendship.

[pattyhoward · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Winnie-the-Pooh is a classic that I love reading with kids. The language is surprisingly complex, but the stories are lovely and simple and the characters so sweet, that kids absolutely adore this book. I think it's a great change of pace from reading novels with more complex stories, but simpler language, and I really think it is key in developing readers. But that may be that I just think these books (and their beautiful pictures) are so cute. I like this book to read WITH kids who are between preschool and mid-elementary age.

[abergsman-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I have read snippets of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, but never in their entirety. They are truly lovely, and filled with a wit and playful use of words that is just as entertaining as an adult. Children are captured by the cute, innocent and playful world; adults pick up on the side-splitting humor.

And yes, when I read this book, it is the Disney voices of Pooh, Piglet, and others that I hear in my head. ;-)

One of my favorites:

"The thing to do is as follows. First, Issue a Reward. Then---"
"Just a moment,"said Pooh, holding up his paw. "What do we do to this--what you were saying? You sneezed just as you were going to tell me."
"I didn't sneeze."
"Yes, you did, Owl."
"Excuse me, Pooh, I didn't. You can't sneeze without knowing it."
"Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed."
"What I said was, 'First, Issue a Reward.'"
"You're doing it again," said Pooh sadly.

[rusty37 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Delightful, and full of witty, gentle humour. I'm so glad I've finally read it properly, rather than just skimming through, and surprised it's taken me so long to do so.

[varwenea · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This deluxe hardcover, Winnie the Pooh, is possibly the most adorable book I own. The illustrations tickle my heart joyfully. This first collection of stories was originally published in 1926; Winnie-the-Pooh (aka Edward the Bear), Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga/Roo, and Tigger, are based on the toys of Christopher Robin Milne, son of the author, Alan Alexander Milne. These toys are on display at the basement (children’s section) of the New York Library Main Branch.The stories themselves are more challenging, childish to be exact. Duh, what do you expect – it is a children’s book! Well, be that as it may, there is infinite baby talk and numerous on-purpose incorrect spellings. In fact, this was another book that I couldn’t read/understand when I was first learning English upon arriving in the U.S. The dictionary doesn’t tell me what is hunny and certainly not what is a Heffalump. There are also many capitalized words that are not proper nouns that threw me of on its significance – “…he had a Clever Idea.” This book needs adult guidance to read to a young toddler or to be enjoyed as an adult remembering the simpler times of wandering the woods, freeing the imagination, and appreciating the “Bear of Very Little Brains”. Be that as it may, as an adult with full command of the English language (I like to think so), I find joy in words of “And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey” and “And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.” The Disney versions of these are slightly differently; regardless, I enjoy my talking Pooh bear giggling these words to me.3.0 stars for the stories + 1.0 stars for the illustrations and bonus colorization (watercolor) from 1992

[meditationesmartini · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The iddly-riddly-oodly-rum-tum-tum stuff and Milne's constant baby-talky switching of pronouns and names ("he" for "Bear" for "Pooh" for "Christopher Robin" for "you") are a bit much to wade through, often, and speak to what a very, very babied boy the original Christopher Robin must have been (and I'm all for trying to raise gentle sons but here it's still trailing strands of empire and you can't help but wonder which beach 2LT Christopher Robin stormed at Normandy). So that's thick and sometimes disturbing treacle to wade through. But underneath that, each of these stories is a slow-paced, sentimental delight, ideal for sending toddlers to happy sleep and giving them treacle to chew over in their dreams, like where are those heffalumps anyway.

[sumisbooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolute classic. A must read 100%

[shaunesay · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I had forgotten how funny these actually are. :)

[shahnareads · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love me some Pooh.
<3

[atreic · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

How do you review such a charming sweet classic? Maybe you don't. It is whimsical and lyrical, and very very tongue in cheek and aimed at the adults as well as the children. And has some very clever bits (the bit where Pooh and Piglet hunt their own footprints is lovely) and some bits that make the over sensitised liberal in me cringe (Pooh eats too much when visiting, and gets stuck, and gets starved for a week.) And I'm not sure what to make of the plot 'Rabbit decides something should be done about Kanga, because she is Strange, and decides to steal her child to encourage her to leave the forest, but she deals with it with good humour and then they all stay as friends.'.

[merkabaza · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A wonderfully innocent and charming read. Characters that any child would instantly fall in love with and a world that holds a great multitude of exciting adventures.