I had different expectations for this book. I don’t mean worse or better, I’ll explain now. The first book had moments that overlapped with the animated version. Or at least that’s how I remember it, I could be mistaken. I expected the same from the second one. In the first book Tigger had not yet appeared as a character. That’s why I knew that in The House at Pooh Corner it would be his moment. And now it’s time to say what I expected. In the animation there is a moment where they look for Tigg...

4.5 stars rounded downA 'trip' to my childhood that was definitely worth it, again.After reading the first volume of Pooh Bear and his adventures, I decided to pick up The House at Pooh Corner in order to keep enjoying these apparently simple but beautifully written stories, where our lovable characters are back to face new obstacles and live new experiences together.Now I just remember when I finished the first book, I was wondering where one of my favorite characters would be. Exactly, I'm tal...

I set out to write a review of Winnie the Pooh and I will say that it’s so 2020 that good reads just deleted it. I will make this short and sweet. I loved the Magical World of Disney as a kid. Before Sunday night football, this was the best television Sunday night had to offer. Before streaming services and YouTube and dvds, there was video rentals and recording television shows on vcr. I recorded all of my favorite magical world of Disney movies and watched them over and over again. One of my f...

Tigger time. Can't touch this!!

The bouncing tiger enters the world of Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit etc. and their world changes for ever. This volume sees the origin of Pooh Sticks, some fantastic Pooh 'hums' and a wondrous parting of ways in the final chapter. Every child should have this read to them. Four Stars, 9 out of 12.

2019 read

Back in the fifties, one Christmas (1957), I had a mammoth case of the flu. But somehow for a little kid the world is always a place of wonder, no matter HOW bad he feels...I remember reading the story of the Flying Dutchman in bed on Christmas Eve - with an incipient fever blackening the edges of my reverie, like the ominous apparition of a major typhoon darkening the edges of the sea.So that, reading this book of the Dutchman’s restless quest became my last clear memory of that Christmas, othe...

As a small child, Winnie the Pooh stories were read to me. As an adult, I read them to my kids and took them to see where Christopher Robin and his childhood friends had lived—the Milnes’ country home at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield in East Sussex, England. We walked in the “Hundred Acre Wood” where he had walked. In real life it is part of Ashdown Forest. We saw the bridge and tumbling creek where sticks had been thrown in on one side and eagerly awaited on the other. I wanted to share with my chi...

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”

I will forever be in love with these books. The sweetness and melancholy get me every single time. I don't know where Milne takes all the beautiful words, the laughing-out-loud humor and the ideas from. I am in awe.

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So beautifully and so simply written (deceptively so) by A.A. Milne and exquisitely illustrated by E.H. Shepard (initially black/white line drawings and later colour washed by Shepard himself). These are the stories of a boy and his bear, his world and all the wonderful characters that inhabit that world – 100 Acre Wood, his childhood and ultimately the passing of that childhood. What could have been (especially considering the era in which they were written) a particularly twee, sickly sweet an...

Winnie the Pooh and the Cocktail Party"Hi. I'm Vikki. Sorry, what did you say your name was? So noisy in here you can't hear a thing. Ed. Got it. Nice to meet you, Ed! What? Oh, I'm a model. Glamor. Thanks! Well, if you've walked past the men's magazine section this week, then you will have. Front cover of Loaded. Really? Hey, that's sweet. No, I mean it. You're really nice. Oh, alright then. Would you believe it, stockings and a honey-pot. That was it. Yes, I do actually. Love it. Have it for b...

Lovely.

I was shocked by how melancholy the book allowed itself to become at the end. And how much that melancholy affected me, but as far as I'm concerned "A little boy and his bear will always be playing." Might be the most hopeful line to end a book in the English language.