Winnie The Pooh

Written by A. A. Milne

Narrated by Geoffrey Giuliano and The Ark

“A hug is always the right size.” 

Winnie the Pooh 

After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends.” 

Eeyore 

“The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.”

Piglet

“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.”

Christopher Robin

Winnie-the-Pooh also called Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh, and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner.3:10Alan Alexander Milne was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Icon Audio Arts
• Release date: Feb 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887677682

A. A. Milne

A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882--1956) was a noted English author primarily known as a poet and playwright before he found huge success with his iconic children’s books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne served in both World Wars and was the father of Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the Pooh character Christopher Robin was based.

Reviews for Winnie The Pooh

[kemilyh1988 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love love love love love love love. Enough said.

[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.

[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.

[heatherlinc · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

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

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[esotericmoment · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was a favorite of mine when I was little. My mother used to read a chapter to me every day in the summer. Even as an adult it's nice to go back and read a simple story with a profound message.

[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.

[olivermagnus · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

5 Stars for Nostalgia Read

One of my reading challenges this month was to read a book with a teddy bear on the cover or in the story. I knew instantly that, even though it's a children's book, I was going to reread Winnie the Pooh. What a wonderful, classic story about one of the most beloved characters in children's literature. It's one of the most magical books that entire generations can enjoy together. If your only introduction to Pooh is through the Disney version, please read this book to get a better view of the sweet world of this “Silly Old Bear”. He thinks he's a “bear of very little brain” but he always get the “hunny” in the end. He's a loyal and steadfast friend who is fond of food and poetry. His very best friend is Christopher Robin and he lives in the Hundred Acre Woods with his friends, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Tigger, Kanga and Roo.

The stories retain the beauty, simplicity and charm they have had for almost 100 years. The illustrations by E.H. Shepard are amazing. It was so much fun the revisit this book after so many years.

[kristymk18-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

So adorable. I loved the TV Show Winnie-the-Pooh growing up and it saddens me that I waited this long to read the books. Cute stories that any child (or adult :D ) will love.

[jennaj-2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Summary - This book was a whole bunch of little stories. Winnie the pooh was always getting himself into something. He tried to figure out how to get honey with a balloon. Personal Reaction - As a child I remember watching these shows on TV but never really thought of reading the book. When I did finally end up reading it I thought it was ok. I really have never been into Winnie the Pooh books. Classroom Extension Ideas - 1. Play with balloons and try and pick stuff up with them.2. Sing the Winnie the Pooh song.

[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.

[reading_penguin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is the kind of book you should read at least twice - once when you're a child, and then again when you're an adult. As a child, you'll get to fully enjoy the wonderful magical world of Winnie the Pooh, while an adult's cold logic may get in the way. However, as an adult, you can recognize and begin to understand Pooh's wise philosophy. Whatever age, you can always find joy and laughter in these wonderful stories.

[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.

[bookslesstravelled · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

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

[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.

[buecherwurmeline · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

we read the book in school in Germany. It is very nice. but I think it is for small children. The storys of Winnie Pooh are nice and easy to understand. It is the first book we read in English class in Germany.

[sumisbooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolute classic. A must read 100%

[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.

[ladytoni_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I used to buy anything Winnie the Pooh when my children and grandchildren were growing up and even at my age I'm enjoying reading this one very much. I still read (supposedly) childrens classics.

[shahnareads · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I love me some Pooh.
<3

[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.

[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.

[crunky_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I read this book to my sons, age 8 and 5, and they both enjoyed it. I was looking for a book that I could read to both of them at the same time at the expense of neither's interest, and Milne's tales fit perfectly. They had not seen the animated versions until partly through the book, demonstrating that the interest they showed was genuinely connected to the text. The chapter sizes make excellent bedtime reading, and there is ample opportunity to read each character's lines with unique voices. The humor of the stories is original yet still apparent to children. For those familiar with the animated versions, such as myself, Pooh and Eeyore are perhaps even more humorous on paper. ("I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday." -Eeyore) The version we read had an illustrated map by Ernest H. Shepard on the inside covers, and my children insisted on looking at it after each reading to identify where the events had taken place. The book had the added bonus of introducing a slight metafictional element to the youngsters. All in all a great read for everyone.

[crunchymunchkin · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Milne's version is so full of insights into childhood that are entirely missed by the better known saccharine Disney version.The story has an endearingly whimsical nature and the wordplay is delightful, not to mention Ernest Shepard's absolutely adorable illustrations. It's a shame that these days he seems better known for his appearances on Disney-licensed merchandise rather than his adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

[isatyajeet · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This...this teaches you life!