I know I'm a bit too old for this, but I remember these stories as a child. I liked the stories in the beginning but then they just got too silly for me. I mean, poor baby Roo that was kidnapped. Pooh bear I do enjoy, but sometimes his dumbness really annoys me. Now Eeyore is my favorite, as my dad always said "they should just give the poor thing a tail to keep and a nice house" ( )

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. ( )

This is the best thing ever. Everyone needs to drop what they're doing and listen to this immediately. I took a break from a longer audiobook so I could listen to this on a road trip today. With the performers listed on the cover, particularly Stephen Fry and Judi Dench, I figured it would be sweet and entertaining. I didn't predict I would be smiling and laughing out loud for two hours. My mom says they read the Winnie the Pooh books out loud to us when we were young, but I can barely remember, certainly not the fact that the stories are hilariously funny. And every single performer on this audio was perfect.
Please, please, please, if you've got a drive coming up, take this delightful book along.
Some favorite lines:
"Eighteen pockets in one suit? I haven't the time."
--Rabbit
"My spelling is wobbly. It's good spelling, but it wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places."
--Pooh
"I'm a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."
--Pooh
"I'm not asking anybody. I'm telling everybody."
--Eeyore ( )

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„ Jen nova, tre tipa kaj alloga libro plena je riĉa, bele naiveta fantazio, ŝpinita ĉirkaŭ ursoĉjo Pu vivanta inter aro da afablaj bestoj, kiuj ege alparolas la imagpovon de infanoj : abeloj, kunikloj, strigo, azeno, porketo, kanguruo, "hefelanto" kaj aliaj ludemuloj. Ursoĉjo Pu estas de multaj bone konata. Ĝiaj travivaĵoj, origine anglalingvaj, tradukiĝis jam en dudekon da lingvoj. Flua Esperantigo kaj tre karakterizaj desegnaĵoj. Gratulinde redaktis Humphrey Tonkin. La verko estas ŝajne informcele dotita per anglalingva enkonduko pri Esperanto krom gramatikaj notoj kaj glosaro. Libro tre bonvena kaj rekomendinda al ĉiuj. Precipe ĝuota de denaske Esperantlingvaj infanoj. ”
— januaro 1973, Jo Haazen, Esperanto, 805 (1), p. 6

Charming bunch of stories for children with some amusement for the adults reading as well. The narrator nails the questions and logic of a child and manages to inject a silly humour they'll love. Although I was surprised by the gun. I mean Christopher Robin's what 4 years? What on earth made Milne think of adding that detail? Shows how times have changed, that's for sure. My favourite part was the "deception which we are practising on these bees". 4 stars.


“It’s like this,” he said. “When you go after honey with a balloon, the great thing is not to let the bees know you’re coming. Now, if you have a green balloon, they might think you were only part of the tree, and not notice you, and if you have a blue balloon, they might think you were only part of the sky, and not notice you, and the question is: Which is most likely?” “Wouldn’t they notice you underneath the balloon?” you asked. “They might or they might not,” said Winnie-the-Pooh. “You never can tell with bees.” He thought for a moment and said: “I shall try to look like a small black cloud. That will deceive them.” “Then you had better have the blue balloon,” you said; and so it was decided.

Milne, A. A.. Winnie-the-Pooh (AmazonClassics Edition) (pp. 10-11). AmazonClassics. Kindle Edition.


“Isn’t that fine?” shouted Winnie-the-Pooh down to you. “What do I look like?” “You look like a Bear holding on to a balloon,” you said. “Not,” said Pooh anxiously, “—not like a small black cloud in a blue sky?” “Not very much.” “Ah, well, perhaps from up here it looks different. And, as I say, you never can tell with bees.”

Milne, A. A.. Winnie-the-Pooh (AmazonClassics Edition) (p. 11). AmazonClassics. Kindle Edition.


“Christopher Robin!” “Yes?” “Have you an umbrella in your house?” “I think so.” “I wish you would bring it out here, and walk up and down with it, and look up at me every now and then, and say ‘Tut-tut, it looks like rain.’ I think, if you did that, it would help the deception which we are practising on these bees.”

Milne, A. A.. Winnie-the-Pooh (AmazonClassics Edition) (pp. 12-13). AmazonClassics. Kindle Edition.


“Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun. Have you got your gun?” “Of course I have,” you said. “But if I do that, it will spoil the balloon,” you said. “But if you don’t,” said Pooh, “I shall have to let go, and that would spoil me.” When he put it like this, you saw how it was, and you aimed very carefully at the balloon, and fired. “Ow!” said Pooh. “Did I miss?” you asked. “You didn’t exactly miss,” said Pooh, “but you missed the balloon.”

Milne, A. A.. Winnie-the-Pooh (AmazonClassics Edition) (pp. 15-16). AmazonClassics. Kindle Edition. ( )