Winnie the Pooh (Hodder Children's Audio) (original 1926; edition 2002)

A truly adorable book for kids and adults alike. :D ( )

Winny de Puh is the Spanish edition of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne. The book consists of ten chapters which are different stories or adventures of Pooh and his friends. The story of Winnie the Pooh is an interesting spin on traditional literature with morals. While there aren't explicitly stated morals of each tale as if they were parables, Pooh offers unique philosophical perspectives on his situations, relationships and life in general. While the stories in the book may seem directed at younger audiences, even higher level readers can benefit from discussions related to Pooh's interesting perspectives.

Specifically the Spanish edition could all provide a very fun and light-hearted source of Spanish-language reading to develop the reading comprehension skills of more advanced Spanish students. ( )

I grew up on Winnie-the-Pooh, but only the Disney version. I mean, I had wood-cuts of the figures hanging on my wall as a child, along with Pooh curtains, Pooh bedspread, and even a Pooh lamp and coat rack. But somehow, someway, I had never been exposed to the original book. I picked this copy up a few years ago at a thrift store in New Bern that no longer exists and finally sat down to read it.

This book was pretty much guaranteed to find a place in my heart because of the place Pooh already had, but the whole structure of the storytelling makes it jump to the top of the list. Here we have the story of the narrator (obviously Milne) telling stories to his son Christopher Robin about his adventures with his toys. This is what parenthood is, folks. Milne creates the world in which his son imagines himself, and his son loves every minute of it, completely buying the stories his father tells him as truth, because why wouldn't he?

And the way the stories are written, we are immediately a part of this world that Milne has created for his son. That's the magic of a good children's story.

This book is definitely going to find a regular place in my children's bedtime stories. ( )

This is the story of Pooh bear and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. This is a classic book that teaches the value of friendship. ( )

Had Christopher Robin and his silly old bear been shot in the head at the beginning, it could have been a pretty good book.
I don't like beings with very little brain, although I don't particularly hate them either, but I do hate those who find them cute, so actually I hate the overratedness of the book rather than the book itself. (Same with The Little Prince.) ( )