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    Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh
    Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh
    Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh
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    Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh

    By A. A. Milne

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    Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is. Fireside Reading is a way to slow down, reconnect with the timeless wisdom of great books and rediscover the simple pleasure of being read to. Join Gildart Jackson in front of a cozy fire as he reads Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne to you and your family from beginning to end.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateFeb 22, 2022
    ISBN9781666567618
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    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.

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    • 5/5
      An adorable and whimsical collection of stories! It is so heartwarming and made me feel like a child again!
    • 5/5
      Outstanding.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      First book I am reading to my daughter, Camila.

      We enjoyed it but where is Tigger?
    • 4/5
      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!
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      A delightful children’s book I never read as a child or to a child. Never too late and not a minute too soon.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.

    • 5/5
      This...this teaches you life!
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 3/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      Absolute classic. A must read 100%
    • 5/5
      I had forgotten how funny these actually are. :)
    • 5/5
      I love me some Pooh.
      <3

    • 3/5
      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.'.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      I listened to this audiobook on a recent road trip with my children. It had been a long time since I read Milne's book with many viewings of Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in the intervening years. The surprising thing for me is just how much of the dialogue for the film is taken right from the book. Of course there are many differences as well. Rabbit seems to be a meaner character and by the time he plotted to have Kanga and Roo removed from The Hundred Acre Woods, I figured he was the type who voted for Brexit.

      The kids enjoyed listening to this book and there was much laughter. I especially enjoy Milne's playful narration that has the seemingly omniscient narrator interacting with a child presumably listening to him reading, much as a parent may when making up stories using a child's toys. A forever classic in any format!
    • 5/5
      Love love love love love love love. Enough said.

    Book preview

    Fireside Reading of Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. Milne

    INTRODUCTION

    If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don't know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That was a long time ago, and when we said good-bye, we took the name with us, as we didn't think the swan would want it any more. Well, when Edward Bear said that he would like an exciting name all to himself, Christopher Robin said at once, without stopping to think, that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. And he was. So, as I have explained the Pooh part, I will now explain the rest of it.

    You can't be in London for long without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there. So when Christopher Robin goes to the Zoo, he goes to where the Polar Bears are, and he whispers something to the third keeper from the left, and doors are unlocked, and we wander through dark passages and up steep stairs, until at last we come to the special cage, and the cage is opened, and out trots something brown and furry, and with a happy cry of Oh, Bear! Christopher Robin rushes into its arms. Now this bear's name is Winnie, which shows what a good name for bears it is, but the funny thing is that we can't remember whether Winnie is called after Pooh, or Pooh after Winnie. We did know once, but we have forgotten. . . .

    I had written as far as this when Piglet looked up and said in his squeaky voice, "What about Me? My dear Piglet, I said, the whole book is about you. So it is about Pooh," he squeaked. You see what it is. He is jealous because he thinks Pooh is having a Grand Introduction all to himself. Pooh is the favourite, of course, there's no denying it, but Piglet comes in for a good many things which Pooh misses; because you can't take Pooh to school without everybody knowing it, but Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comforting to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two. Sometimes he slips out and has a good look in the ink-pot, and in this way he has got more education than Pooh, but Pooh doesn't mind. Some have brains, and some haven't, he says, and there it is.

    And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

    A. A. M.

    CHAPTER I.

    IN WHICH

    WE ARE INTRODUCED TO WINNIE-THE-POOH AND SOME BEES, AND THE STORIES BEGIN

    Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't. Anyhow, here he is at the bottom, and ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh.

    When I first heard his name, I said, just as you are going to say, But I thought he was a boy?

    So did I, said Christopher Robin.

    Then you can't call him Winnie?

    I don't.

    But you said—

    "He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what 'ther' means?"

    Ah, yes, now I do, I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get.

    Sometimes Winnie-the-Pooh likes a game of some sort when he comes downstairs, and sometimes he likes to sit quietly in front of the fire and listen to a story. This evening—

    What about a story? said Christopher Robin.

    "What about a story?" I said.

    Could you very sweetly tell Winnie-the-Pooh one?

    I suppose I could, I said. What sort of stories does he like?

    "About himself. Because he's that sort of Bear."

    Oh, I see.

    So could you very sweetly?

    I'll try, I said.

    So I tried.

    Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.

    (What does 'under the name' mean? asked Christopher Robin.

    "It means he had the name over the door in gold letters, and lived under it."

    Winnie-the-Pooh wasn't quite sure, said Christopher Robin.

    Now I am, said a growly voice.

    Then I will go on, said I.)

    One day when he was out walking, he came to an open place in the middle of the forest, and in the middle of this place was a large oak-tree, and, from the top of the tree, there came a loud buzzing-noise.

    Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think.

    First of all he said to himself: "That buzzing-noise means something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something. If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee."

    Then he thought another long time, and said: And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey.

    And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.

    He climbed and he climbed and he climbed, and as he climbed he sang a little song to himself. It went like this:

    Isn't it funny

    How a bear likes honey?

    Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

    I wonder why he does?

    Then he climbed a little further . . . and a little further . . . and then just a little further. By that time he had thought of another song.

    It's a very funny thought that, if Bears were Bees,

    They'd build their nests at the bottom of trees.

    And that being so (if the Bees were Bears),

    We shouldn't have to climb up all these stairs.

    He was getting rather tired by this time, so that is why he sang a Complaining Song. He was nearly there now, and if he just stood on that branch . . .

    Crack!

    Oh, help! said Pooh, as he dropped ten feet on the branch below him.

    If only I hadn't— he said, as he bounced twenty feet on to the next branch.

    "You see, what I meant to do," he explained, as he turned

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