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Sto caricando le informazioni... Disney Winnie the Pooh Telling Timedi Walt Disney Productions, Atelier Philippe Harchy (Illustratore), Michel Kokot (Illustratore), Olivier Pascual (Illustratore), Pierre Pruvost (Illustratore)
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It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. A few minutes gazing out over the most glorious bay he had ever seen was all it took to persuade him. After all, his son Christopher was already raising his family there so he would help build the beautiful villa that would soon rise there. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. John was to spend the next three years regretting his moment of madness. Some of it had its comic side. He learned to cope with a drunken peacock falling out of his favourite tree and even a colony of rats invading his bedroom. Some of the humans proved trickier: the old man demanding payment for olive trees in the middle of John's own land; the neighbour who dragged his lovely old fishing boat onto the beach and set fire to it after a row with his wife. And, of course, the builders. Was the plumber who electrocuted him in the shower vengeful or merely incompetent? John learned a lot about Greece in a short time. He grew to love it and loathe it in almost equal measures, but was never for a moment bored by it. And Christopher learned a bit more about John. Their shared experience revived keen memories for him of growing up with a father for whom patience was never the strongest virtue... Here father and son capture the idyll and the odyssey as paradise is found, lost and regained. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Well, I should clarify that the story is a complete nothing tale about Pooh waking up with a craving for cake and passing every single hour of the day impatiently -- but giving kids the chance to move the attached clock hands -- until he can have cake. My two-star rating reflects this.
No, what's exciting for me is that this is another example of Disney book recycling -- one of my favorite sub-topics in the Pooh Project!
When I went to log this book on LibraryThing and Goodreads I saw that it was attributed to writer Hallie Marshall even though her name appears nowhere on the book I have in hand despite its having full credits for the four illustrators. When I searched for the book title online I did find that there were some versions of the cover where Marshall's name appears and some like mine, where it does not.
At first it appeared that there were two different editions of the same book: a hardcover edition where Marshall's name appears and a board book edition where it doesn't. But I searched the hardcover ISBNs and found some interior pages and was surprised to find that the hardcover had twice as many pages as the board book with many extra illustrations, illustrations in a different order, and words that were completely different. The hardcover has a story about Rabbit's birthday, whereas the board book is just about Pooh wanting cake.
Hardcover first words:
It was nearly eight o'clock. Pooh rolled out of bed. "Time for my stoutness exercises!"
Board book first words:
Late one night, Winnie the Pooh lay cozily in his bed. He was dreaming of cakes and snacks and smackerels of honey. He was a hungry bear -- even when he was sleeping.
Hardcover last words:
By nine o'clock, Pooh was in bed and dreaming. He dreamed of birthday cakes. He dreamed of snacks and smackerels and honeypots and pots of honey!
Sweet dreams, Pooh!
(The hardcover ends with the illustration of Pooh dreaming that opens the board book with the first words above.)
Board book last words:
"I believe this is the best cake I have ever eaten," declared Pooh.
Everyone at the table agreed, and no one noticed how much time had passed because they were all too busy having fun.
I couldn't resist tracking down a cheap copy of the hardcover on eBay, and I'll review that separately when I receive it next week.
(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... ) (