The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh

by A. A. Milne

Other authorsErnest H. Shepard (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

823.912

Publication

Dutton Children's Books (1994), Edition: 1994, 344 pages

Description

The world of Pooh is a world of enchantment. It is a world where Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyor, Tigger, Kanga and the others share unforgettable adventures with Christopher Robin.

User reviews

LibraryThing member annereid
I still have my well-thumbed copy of this. It's not this cover, but when I tried to change to the cover I have, it came up in a foreign language.

Love the characters created by A.A. Milne and it warms my heart to picture him telling Christopher Robin stories starring his favourite stuffed animals.
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What a Dad and what a classic children's book,
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LibraryThing member ctmsalmo
Pooh Bear from the Hundred Acre Wood is a classic character from Walt Disney's Winnie The Pooh. Story Book of Pooh is a fantastic combination of all Pooh's adventures, including all of his friends. Piglet, Rabbit, Roo, Tiger, and more! Most important, Christopher Robin. Story Book of Pooh is sure
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to brighten the day for any age!
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LibraryThing member justineaylward
Winnie the Pooh is great because it is so very obviously for a kid. There is just no getting around it. It is absurd in such believable ways. My favorite is "A House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore." I love the little song/poem the Pooh write to keep warm.
LibraryThing member gillis.sarah
I can't believe I didn't read any of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories until I was in high school. What was I thinking? Anyway, I'm glad I finally did read them, and I enjoyed them as much as a teenager as I think I would have as a small child. Pooh, Piglet, and the rest of the characters in these books
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are much wiser than many adults I know.
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LibraryThing member Pattern-chaser
From cradle to grave, Pooh is a Good Read.
LibraryThing member menaramore
This book is a collection of stories about a boy named Christopher Robin and his stuffed bear Winnie-the-Pooh. In one story Pooh gets stuck in his friend Rabbit's doorway after eating too much honey. In another, Pooh meets a new friend Tigger and gets lost in the woods. There are floods and bad
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dreams, but Pooh's friends are always there to help him out. This is a classic book that I loved as a child. I strongly reccomend this to anyone and also the original movies that go right along with the stories.
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LibraryThing member melydia
This thick volume contains both Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, and contains pretty much all of the most famous stories. I'd been meaning to read this since my exposure to these tales had been limited to Disney's interpretation. Most of the characters were more or less the way I'd
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imagined, with the exception of Eeyore. In the book he's less mopey and gloomy than sarcastic and self-centered. To be honest, I think I like this snarky Eeyore better. The stories as a whole were fairly enjoyable, though the sad endings of each book (with a separate story just to say goodbye) got a little tiresome. Growing up really isn't this big horrible thing. Believe it or not, you are allowed to have an imagination as an adult. That said, I do understand why these tales are so beloved. They are charming and undeniably memorable.
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LibraryThing member datrappert
Absolutely charming and worth re-reading for adults. A very safe choice for advanced young readers. My daughter read this three times before she turned 6. And while I have to admit that I don't detest the Disney versions as so many do, this is certainly what everyone needs to read first. The sad
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thing is that Milne wrote so little about these characters!
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LibraryThing member mthelibrarian
A read-aloud to my 12-year-old son. We both loved them.
LibraryThing member linda-irvine
For "little Linda" - a purchase I have read many times and never regretted.
LibraryThing member EllieGiles
Winnie the Pooh--perhaps the most classic of all children's tales.
LibraryThing member Khoffy
Winnie the Pooh is a classic story book character full of fantastic moral underlinings and interesting plots. Pooh represents friendship, caring, charm, love and respect. Fantastic books to read to children, allowing them to connect with the characters of the Hundred Acre Woods throughout the
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collection.
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LibraryThing member jfslone
I can't even think of my childhood without thinking of Winni-the-Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood. This book is one of my treasures, and I find myself, even at 22 years old, often opening it up to random pages, just to read a little bit, or look at the wonderful illustrations. You just can't go wrong.
LibraryThing member VikkiLaw
I remember reading this book cover to cover the summer after I had finished 5th grade (or maybe it was 4th grade). I remember feeling like the Hundred Acre Wood was a very claustrophobic place, but that might have been because I was reading the book in the city summer camp where the book selection
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was limited to one or two shelves and I was mixing up the book and my own reality.

My daughter, when she was younger, loved Winnie the Pooh. As far as I know, she doesn't feel boxed in by the stories.
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LibraryThing member colorred
I listened to this as an audio book and enjoyed hearing the different voices, but I miss looking at the illustrations. The characters that developed in my mind were based on the Disney movies. A great collection of stories that can be enjoyed by parent and child.
LibraryThing member libraian
(With original line illustrations by E. H. Shepard)

This book was originally published in 1926, when Christopher Robin, A. A. Milne's son, would have been about 5 or 6. Milne breaks the fourth wall to envelop us, too, in the delightful adventures of Christopher Robin and his companions.

These are the
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opening paragraphs (after a short Introduction, where we are given a sideways explanation of who Winnie the Bear is - until Piglet interrupts):

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher 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-the-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.


(oh, alright, then; just this once. He apparently took his named from a Canadian bear, who - after many adventures in the Great War - came to reside in London Zoo, and was named after Winston Churchill. Winnie. As for 'ther-Pooh', you'll have to ask him yourselves.)

And so we are introduced to Winnie-ther-Pooh (formerly known as Edward Bear), and thus to Christopher Robin. This is the delightful, quirky tone of the book, which is a collection of 10 short stories featuring the denizens of the 100 Aker Wood, some of whose arrivals (Kanga's and Roo's) feature in the collection. They go on expotitions, hunt Woozles and Wizzles and Heffalumps (or are hunted by them), have parties - and of course - eat lots of hunny. Which usually gets our bear into trouble.

I just love the casual, quirky silliness of the way it's written:

Christopher Robin said you couldn't be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. And his grandfather had had two names in case he lost one - Trespassers after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.

This was the bedtime book I read to my children over a few nights. My four year old loved the stories, while my nine year old gets a lot of the humour, though there are some levels that may be reserved for adults (I doubt young children realise that Piglet's sign is part of 'trespassers will be prosecuted', for instance).

And in addition, for me, there is that sense of reminiscence and innocence that is partly peeking into my children's childhood and partly looking back to mine.

This book strikes a special chord with me, as Christopher Robin - as portrayed - is about the same age as my youngest is now (though my child is, necessarily, more worldly-wise).

Thoroughly recommended, especially for a bit of light-hearted, misty-eyed nostalgia.

Five stars.
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LibraryThing member emmalune
This classic by AA Milne is a sweet book about friendship, imagination, and exploration. Milne's wit and gentleness can be seen on every page as Winnie the Pooh and his friends have adventures in the Hundred Acre Woods. Young children will love hearing this book read aloud and people of all ages
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can appreciate the wisdom found within each chapter.
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LibraryThing member katie1802
Ah, what a classic, I used to just read it over and over and over.............
LibraryThing member JVioland
What is not to like? One of the most precious books in all children's literature. Characters so memorable they have become part of our culture. Not a bad thing.
LibraryThing member zahammou
Reading this book for an author's presentation was quite delightful. The first thing that caught my attention was the cover, as well as the colors and characters on the front. Other than the beautiful pictures in and out of the book, I enjoyed reading about Winnie-The-Pooh and his new friendships
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that began to form with Christopher Robin, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore. As they travel through the Hundred Acre Woods, there doesn't seem to be a lack of exciting events that happen in the forest! Great read for younger students, large font, adorable pictures--just a great book.
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LibraryThing member dagon12
I read this book as part of a nighttime reading to my eight year old daughter. On the one hand it was a good fit because each chapter was no longer than thirteen pages, a perfect length to read as part of bedtime. And then the characters are already well-known thanks to Disney. I will admit this
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that this aspect made it a bit challenging because I could never quite get the voices of the characters right when reading them aloud. I was only satisfied with my voice for Eyeore. And I think that I failed miserably on Pooh every time. Another thing that I liked was that Disney did a good job of translating the characters to the screen. The cartoons very much matched the book. In fact, several chapters seemed to be a directly converted into the cartoons. It made me feel good that the book was providing a high-quality source and giving me more than what could be found in the cartoons.

Now, on the other hand, the book wasn't totally a great fit to be read aloud to a young-ish child. The stories were originally written in 1926 and 1928 and some of the descriptions use older terms. I had to redescribe items several times. Plus there were many moments of more mature humor that were totally lost on my daughter. Often the characters would misspell words (Owl spelled his name as WOL); something that is lost when read out loud and to a child who doesn't immediately recognize a misspelled word. Plus there were several times when important elements to a chapter were left unsaid. As an adult, I knew what was happening, but a child would not. For example, the final chapter where Christopher Robin is going away. My daughter just thought of that as Christopher Robin going to play elsewhere or with different friends or different toys. But as adults, we can read between the lines and realize that Christopher Robin is growing up and moving away from childhood and into adulthood and leaving his imagination behind in the process. A sad fact regardless but a hard truth to convey to someone who still lives in a world of imagination. Overall, I'm glad that I read the stories but I probably won't read them to my second daughter until she's a bit older than eight.
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LibraryThing member harleybrenton
The Winnie the pooh tales tell the story of Pooh and his friends. This classic could be used to illustrate the importance of friendship. It's a good story to read aloud.
LibraryThing member meandmybooks
Another one of those “imbibed with mother's milk” books, like “The Wind in the Willows” and “The Hobbit,” which I am incapable of commenting on with any sort of objectivity. I get a kick out of Pooh's “hums,” and the characters are old friends. My dad's nickname for my mom was
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“Pooh,” and she introduced him to the Pooh books when they were dating (he was a Jewish boy from Staten Island, and knew all about science and philosophy, but had missed out on most of the children's classics), and lines and characters from the books were part of our family culture. My copy is one I purchased on a long-ago and fondly remembered trip to England with my best childhood friend, so there's that much more sentiment involved. You get the picture – I turn to mush when it comes to Pooh. Anyway, this is my last “read this to my mom while she was dying of dementia/cancer” review, because, well, I don't get to read her any more books. But, we got to finish this one. On Tuesday morning, her last day, I read her chapter IX, which is the one where Eeyore finds Owl a new house, only it happens to be Piglet's house, and Piglet does the Noble thing, and then X, “An Enchanted Place.” That last chapter chokes me up in a “normal” reading – when reading to a child. Christopher Robin is leaving his “nursery days,” and he asks Pooh to always remember him. He, Christopher Robin, doesn't want to leave, but it's time and he has to, but a part of him will always remain in this enchanted place with Pooh. Mom was fading away, but she was still aware and registered the illustrations I showed her (I only bothered her with the best ones). She passed away Tuesday night, and I'll miss her terribly, but I think this was a fine book to end with.
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LibraryThing member cubsfan3410
I hadn't read this since probably the 3rd grade and I loved it!! Fun, easy read for any age to enjoy.
LibraryThing member cougargirl1967
I know these are classic tales, but I didn't enjoy them as much as I'd hoped.

Language

Original publication date

1928 (The House at Pooh Corner)
1926 (Winnie the Pooh)

Physical description

344 p.

ISBN

0525457534 / 9780525457534

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