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 More...

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.

Cute cute cute.. Probably the cutest books I have ever read in my life- Winnie-the-Pooh and this book. The ending kinda made me teary eyed but this line will stay with me always "a little boy and his bear will always be playing". I have decided to make sure that my kids (if I have one) read Pooh stories, even if they don't like to read. This book introduced Tigger, who was not present in the earlier book. I can read it again and again, just to laugh at "WOL" and "Backson" :)) I own a Pooh myself More...

I like to go back and read children's books now that I'm older to see how my perceptions of them change; this was a fun one to do so with, and I think that I may have even enjoyed more now than I did when I was a kid.

The stories are so simple and straightforward, yet have so much truth and relevance to people at any stage of life. Particularly great is reading the final story in this book about Christopher Robin leaving, which I found very relevant to my current state of growing up and moving o More...

I read this with my son. Not that he got too much out of it - he's 1. But I've wanted to read the Pooh books for a long time so I figured I might as well read them aloud. I found the beautiful reissue box set at a bargain store - absolutely gorgeous, full-color hardcovers of Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Young, Now We Are Six, and Return to the Hundred Acre Wood. They are LOVELY. I've enjoyed the stories although it took me the whole first book to get used to the attitu More...

Since his first time in print on December 24th, 1925 in the London Evening News, Winnie the Pooh has captured the imaginations of children and adults alike. Pooh's poetry, free-form Hums, preoccupation with just-a-little-something's, and confusion (being a Bear of Little Brain) create a most delightful literary character. In the second book of the series, The House At Pooh Corner introduces the reader to Tigger, a new and lively creature of the forest who disturbs the order of the Hundred Acre More...

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Some basic facts about Winnie the Pooh and the Divine Comedy.

(1) Have you ever tried looking up Winnie on project Gutenberg? You find that Dante gets a few thousand hits and Winnie gets none. NONE!!! And you know why? Because Disney bullied Congress years ago into being allowed to keep the copyright longer than was their legal right. And you know why they did that? Of course it is because everybody loves Winnie. Try this, if you don't believe me. Offer the More...

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Semi-Final Match: Winnie-the Pooh vs. Hamlet

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100 Acre Wood CEO: Yes, indeed. Thank you for this opportunity. For nearly a century now we have provided children and their parents with one of the most essential tools towards abstract thinking, emotional hygiene, social empathy and creativity. Let me bring th More...

Oh what a wonderful blast from the past! It's been quite a while since I last read anything to do with Winnie the Pooh. I found a beautiful old copy of The House at Pooh Corner in a used book store about a year ago and I put it aside to be read when I had more free time. If only I had read it sooner! I picked it up again a couple of days ago for a bit of light reading and some stress relief. I wanted something light and fluffy to clear my mind. Instead I got something filled with wonderful lesso More...

When I told my friends I was reading a winnie-the-pooh book, they looked at me like I was crazy (I'm in high school). When I told them I cried at the end of it, they looked at me like I was even more insane. And then I explained this was one of the books of winnie-the-pooh before Disney came along and completely ruined the whole thing, and they all nodded understandingly. After I finished reading this, I yelled at mom for not reading this to me when I was a kid, because I just realized that a ch More...

Once again, A.A. Milne kept my attention in a wonderful children's book. I still think it's awesome that Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh for his son, and I love that Pooh Bear is always the hero. I can't help it, Pooh was always my favorite. He still is, after all these years.

I love Milne's conversational style and simple language. But I also love the characterization of Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Piglet, and Pooh. And Tigger joining the crew was a burst of genius in this book. I know these are simple, s More...

I really love, and always have, Winnie the Pooh. Although, there's something odd about re-reading a book from your childhood...I ended up making all the connections that were intended through the stories. Each chapter of this book was a separate little story. They all center around friendship and the daily activities in the forest. There's a lot of lessons to be learned about friendship and love and how you treat others. The last story of the book was kind of sad actually, because Christopher Ro More...

I have to admit that I LOVE Eeyore. He doesn't expect much of the world. He's not 'cynical' at all--just unhopeful. I like that. Why SHOULD we all be forced to be 'positive' in a world that too often disappoints? As at least one person has pointed out, a pessimist is somebody who only has pleasant surprises.

This is also the book that introduces Tigger. I hadn't realized how antsy he was, It's no wonder he makes others jittery, without really meaning to.

I like Pooh's little hums and doggerel. But More...

I have been reading this book since I was ten. I can't remember if that was before or after I participated in a Winnie-the-Pooh play (I played Rabbit and Eeyore's butt), so I don't know if I joined the play because of the book or bought the book because of the play. Regardless, I've always loved it, and even though it's the second book in the collection, the stories within it stand fine on their own. Here, Eeyore and Owl get new houses, Tigger comes to the Wood, Piglet discovers he is useful aft More...

One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet's house to see what Piglet was doing.

Last January, I read and reviewed Winnie the Pooh. It was a reread, as is House at Pooh Corner, an indulgence, too, if you will. Milne's characters: Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, even Rabbit's friends-and-relations like 'Small' are endearing. They're not just characters in a book, they're friends. And visiting with these particu More...

This was it.

Christo­pher Robin is go­ing.

At least I think he is.

Where?

No­body knows.

But he is go­ing—

I mean he goes

(To rhyme with “knows”)

Do we care?

(To rhyme with “where”)

We do

Very much.

(I haven’t got a rhyme for that “is” in the sec­ond line yet. Both­er.)

(Now I haven’t got a rhyme for both­er. Both­er.)

Those two both­ers will have to rhyme with each oth­er Buther.

The fact is this is more dif­fi­cult than I thought,

I ought—

(Very good in­deed)

I ought

To be­gin again,

But it is eas­ier

To stop.

Chri More...

It's crazy that I never realized that Tigger didn't exist until the FOURTH book! I think I would really like to read a biography on A.A. Milne based on this book. I'd like to know his thought processes. Really! I know these are characters that children love (and least the Disney-fied versions) but man! These are some annoying characters. And as anthropomorphic creatures, I can't help but think that he had to have been making some sort of social commentary. Really, all of the them are so exaggera More...

The House at Pooh Corner
A.A. Milne -CHH EGMONT
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Discussion Question
If you can go to any Disney Resorts in the world, where do you want to go?
-In my case, I wan to go to Walt Disney World in Florida because it is very huge Disney Resort and we can do many kinds of activities!

There are ten short stories in this book. I read two stories and a half of story. I like Pooh very much,so I can enjoy reading and I want to read other s More...

I had a deprived childhood. Ahhh! I did not read any of the Winnie the Pooh stories until I came across this recording & the companion recording of "Winnie the Pooh" until I bought them for my daughter when I was in my 40s.

It's the only story which has brought me close to crashing the car. Driving through the Lake District I heard the the Pooh sticks story as Eyeore floats under the bridge. It's difficult to see dry-stone walls, cry laughing uncontrollably, and keep control of a car on tigh More...

The House at Pooh Corner brings us more of the world of Winnie-the-Pooh. In this book the author introduces the irrepressible Tigger, whose shenanigans create plenty of energy. The writing quality and character development are just as wonderful in as in Winnie-the-Pooh -- this book has none of the sequel's dullness.

The House at Pooh Corner, like the first Pooh book, will appeal best to children are old enough to engage in imaginative play. It's a good read-aloud for the 4-8 crowd, but the 8-12 a More...

Oh this book is so wonderful, and somehow more poignant and (the end) melancholy, too, than the first. I laughed out out loud several times.

Eeyore's surliness shines:
"If anybody wants to clap," said Eeyore when he had read this, "now is the time to do it."
They all clapped.
"Thank you," said Eeyore. "Unexpected and gratifying, if a little lacking in Smack."

And features one of my most favorite Pooh dialogues:
"There's a thing called Twy-stymes," he said. "Christopher Robin tried to teach it to me on More...

This is one of the books we've read to Corbyn in utero; I think Lars and I enjoyed it as much as we imagine Corbyn will, once he actually understands what we're saying! A. A. Milne is amazingly funny. Each character has a distinct personality that kids can identify with.

Divided into ten short stories told to Christopher Robin about his bear, each little story is honeycombed with examples of kindness, greed, bravery, cowardice, and, most of all, friendship. My favorite is the one where Pooh rolls More...

woohoo; foung this 1961 hardcover at value village for a dollar fifty six. The edition I chose isn't the one in the picture, but it is a red hardcover and there was no other option like that.

The novel is very cute. Very much cuter than the Disney cartoons or the plush media overdose.
Disney did however get the voice of the narrator absolutely correct. Pooh was close, just hummier in the book. Piglet was close too, less stuttery and dumb in the book. Eor was way way off. Eor is such a cynical sarc More...

I would say that this follow up to Winnie-the-Pooh is only slightly less delightful than its predecessor, but it is still very, very good. Namely, we are introduced to Tigger and the game of Poohsticks. I am not certain how I have lived my life up until now without knowing about Poohsticks. Although I feel certain that, on some deep instinctive level, I have always known about Poohsticks. I also can't do a review of a Pooh book without mentioning the marvelous illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. More...

Wonderful pairing of Milne's sweet stories and E. H. Shepard's pen-and-ink "decorations." Someone gave me a boxed set of these when I was a still a child but easily able to read them on my own. I think I was at least ten, if not older. I loved them, though even at the time I noticed the occasional lapses into too-cute-ness.

Once read a review of Milne's son's autobiography. He was the inspiration for Christopher Robin and apparently resented that his childhood had been stolen somehow, co-opted fo More...

The final paragraph is what pushed this to be a 5 star book. It elequently ends the book allowing Christopher Robin to grow up but still be a child. It also ties the reality of Christopher Robin back to the first book. Where, in the first book someone tells him the stories of Pooh, we find out Christopher Robin is now using his own imagination to grow and expand the Pooh universe. The stories we read in The House At Pooh Corner were the journey through the mind of a child. That final paragraph ( More...

Ahh the feeling of being young and having adventures just outside your backyard. The feeling that everything is yours and open. Alan Alexander Milne has a way of making childhood feel safe and heartbreaking. Pooh and his friends bring a smile to my face and an ache to my heart because in the end you must say goodbye to childhood and hello to the world of possibilities outside your imagination. But, there is a strong and comforting knowledge with childhood endings, you can always look back and re More...

Whether you are six or ninety-six, there's still plenty to enjoy in these stories. The language is superb, the writing hilarious. The final chapter is just one last story when read to children, but for any adults reading it it is a deeply moving essay on growing up and leaving childhood things behind.

Just as the Toy Story films celebrated childhood things in a way both children and adults appreciate and adore, AA Milne achieved the same almost 90 years ago in this book.

Every book case should ha More...

Sometimes I need to read something that can stimulate, amuse and yet be at a reading level below my norm. I love the Pooh of AA Milne (writer) and EH Shepard (illustrator). The stories and characters as less syrupy and more human than the Disneyfied characters we see on the screen. The older c characters are more complex and deeper.

In 'Pooh builds a House' I am amazed at the depth when Pooh and Piglet told Christopher Robin

"of the Awful Mistake they had made ... "And I know it seems easy," sai

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I never had read the orginal Pooh books, so decided I should.

To quote from the back cover:
"Private research has convinced us that few people in responsible positions in society today have got to their eminence without the influence of Pooh"
- The Christian Science Monitor

And The House at Pooh Corner is home to one of my most favorite Pooh quotes (which I collected from somewhere other than the book, I guess):
"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
'Pooh!' he whispered.
'Yes, piglet?'
'Nothing,' said More...