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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)

A.A. Milne

Start date: October 1, 2023

Finish date: October 31, 2023

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: October 2023 New School Group Read
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Oct 29, 2016 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction-20th-century, read-2016, children-ya, audio-books, british-literature

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From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
1/5: In which the bear goes visiting and gets into a tight place.

2/5: In which the bear and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle, and Eeyore loses a tail.

3/5: In which Piglet meets a Heffalump.

4/5: In which Christopher Robin leads an 'expotition' to the North Pole.

5/5: In which Eeyore has a birthday and gets two presents.

Alan Bennett begins reading the first of five parts of AA Milne's tale of the much-loved bear.

Winnie-the-Pooh has give ...more

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Jun 24, 2008 Suvi rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: children, 1900-1939, _great-britain

Too cutesy for my taste. Adorable little animals wandering around the forest and saying cute things about friendship. Cute, yes. Meaningful? Couldn't find much to rave about. Appropriate for children, but I think adult readers might search for philosophical musings a bit too much. Meaning can be found wherever you want to find it, but it doesn't mean that the author actually intended any of that. Hell, I don't know what Milne intended with his stories, but I find it hard to believe that he wante ...more

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Feb 04, 2008 Heather L rated it it was amazing

Shelves: banned-books, group-read, childrens-middle-grade, 2023

Loved my return visit to the Hundred Acre Wood!

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Dec 10, 2009 Gaijinmama rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kids

I grew up on Winnie the Pooh and now have had the pleasure of sharing it with my 6 year old. As an adult, I have to say the humor was downright Monty Python-esque in places. MUCH more fun than the Disney Channel version.
Come on, sing it with me...
Rum tum tiddly um tum...

Tigger doesn't bounce in until the next book. He's my favorite, but Eeyore is a close second and he certainly has plenty of delightful, grumpy scenes here. ...more

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Feb 14, 2011 Maggie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, short-stories, childrens, classics, british

I've always known Winnie-the-Pooh as a character on a video tape that I watched when I was young, and when I found it in the iBooks app on my iTouch, I was surprised that he actually appeared in a book first. Reading it cleared up several of my misconceptions:

1. Owl is not as clever as I remember him to be, he just pretends to be clever.
2. Rabbit is not as irritating as I thought he was. In fact he is clever.
3. All the animals are actually toys.
4. Tigger, my favourite character, does not even ap ...more

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