Winnie The Pooh (BBC Radio Collection)

This CD and it's companion, The House at Pooh Corner, are our favourite audiobooks to listen to in the car. My husband and I enjoy them as much as our sons, aged 10, 8 and 4. Alan Bennett does an amazing job reading them -- I hear all sorts of humour and nuance that I miss when I read them aloud myself. His voice is perfect, his technique flawless and his feeling for the subtleties and humour in Milne's language really bring the colours out of the text. Completely enjoyable from start to finish, for kids from 2 to 102. I hear my 8 year old muttering "Was it a hearty joke, or was it the merest accident?" all the time... I prefer a narration to a dramatisation - I find the changes in speaker distracting and less book-like. I listen to a lot of grownup audiobooks when I exercise and have become quite picky about narrators. These two cd's are among the best I have heard; Bennett changes his voice just enough for each character to make them distinctive and real without interrupting the flow of the text. Brilliant. (Just for the record, the other top narrator is, of course, Stephen Fry -- if you have older children and haven't heard his Harry Potter books, give them a try too!)

I'm trying to get across to my children that the Disney Channel has a lot of adaptations of much older stories. This led me to reading "Winnie-The-Pooh" out loud to my seven-year-old at bedtime, in instalments. It's the first time I've read it cover-to-cover as well. Written in the 1920s, "Winnie-The-Pooh" stars Christopher Robin (aged around six) who lives in the Hundred-Acre-Wood with a collection of animals including Pooh the bear, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore, Kanga and Roo. (Tigger doesn't appear until the next book.) There are no grown-ups, and Christopher Robin is the de facto leader and source of wisdom, though it is primarily the animals who have the adventures. They get caught in snowstorms, float up to bees on balloons, escape floods, and have parties. All very gentle, in an Arcadian forest setting. Like Dr Suess though, A.A. Milne has a fantastic grasp of language and works spectacularly well when read out loud. (He was also a playwright.) Almost instantly, I was putting on voices for all the different characters (I especially like my Eeyore voice), and there are bits of poems scattered throughout which bounce off the tongue. My daughter was delighted to find out that Christopher Robin was actually the author's son, and the animals are based on his real toys, which can still be seen in a museum in New York. She is also envious of Christopher Robin's carefree life in the forest. There are illustrations throughout, so though the humour was a bit indirect at times, the pictures helped point it out. Reading level of 8+ years, for children reading it to themselves, but like "Alice In Wonderland", there's a deeper psychological layer there for the grown-ups.

Winnie-the-Pooh is certainly a children's classic and also a classic in the sense that it transcends age. I'm 41 and have just finished this joy of a book! Lovable, brainless Pooh. Cute, timid Piglet. Philosophical, depressed Eeyore. Bossy, organised Rabbit. Talkative, intelligent Owl. Motherly, caring Kanga. Carefree, fun Roo. All under the wing of Christopher Robin with the classic illustrations by E.H. Shepard. To be informative, the ten chapters tell the tale of how Pooh pursues some honey, how he gets stuck in Rabbit's house, how he and Piglet hunt a Woozle, how Eeyore's loses his tail, how Piglet and Pooh hunt a Heffalump, Eeyore's birthday, Kanga and Roo's arrival, an exhibition to the North Pole, how Piglet gets trapped by a flood and a Pooh party. Just delightful and incredibly witty at times!

First time reading this. Book suitable.

Lovely realising story’s time

I'm sure I must have read Winnie-the-Pooh before as I remember all the characters and had a very strong memory of Pooh trying to trick the bees into thinking it was raining so he could steal their honey, but otherwise I couldn't remember any specific events. I don't know whose copy I ever read but I don't think it was mine, or I would still have it! Anyway, I'm so glad I got this cheap on the Kindle as it was lovely to read again after many years. As I read, some of the stories were a little familiar so it did feel nicely nostalgic. The writing style is so adorable and it does have clever little jokes or references in for the adults too. And really, who doesn't love Winnie the Pooh?

This is a loverly book in every way clearly the stories and poems themselves are beyond any kind of critisism, containing so much profound wisdom and insight in such a delightful and captivating context, this is not anything like the mostly shockingly bad Walt Disney parody it spawned, however if WD keeps these storys on peoples bookshelves then he has done a great service to humanity. The pictures are all works of art and whilst reading this book to our two year old I have often found myself lost within them and not wanting to turn the page, they are also in color which is done very subtly and effectively Even the paper it's printed on is loverly I could not recommend this book highly enough If I didn't buy this book I'd buy the two original WTP books (one of which we have an original copy of) however the addition of color to the pictures in this volume make it something very special. you can also buy all four books in this color format individually but why not get them all at once

I act as a sitter at a local hospice. I frequently red to patients in the last hour of their lives. I always wanted a proper pre-Disney copy of the original book as it is great for short time readings. I don’t do the voices, but it has already bought joy to people in their darkest hour.

Volevo leggere questo libro in inglese per assaporare nel migliore dei modi lo stile dell'autore, e devo dire che non mi ha deluso! Un classico per grandi e adulti che vi farà assaporare la magia del bosco dei cento acri, dove troverete amici sinceri e tante avventure! Una volta terminato il libro sentirete come un po' di malinconia, ma è normale. È uno di quei libri che ti fa sentire la mancanza per l'infanzia e tutte le cose belle fatte da bambini. Se i libri ti fanno provare emozioni forti, come in questo caso, allora hanno colpito nel segno! Di tanto in tanto è sempre una buona cosa tornare bambini. Lettura consigliata!

ディズニーのパワーもあいまって、ほぼ誰もが知っているであろう『くまのプーさん』の原書です。これこそがオオモトです。 英語は難しくありませんが、８０年前に英国で書かれた本書なので、現代アメリカ英語に慣れた日本人にとっては、 例えば、you don't haveというところをyou haven'tといっているなど、ちょっと馴染みのない表現・語彙もありますが 挿絵もたっぷり入っていることですし、ちょっとがんばれば読み通せます。 繰り返し「VERY LITTLE BRAIN」と書かれ、何と自分でもそう言っているプーさん、実はけっこう賢い小さなピグレット、 ちょっと人づきあいが嫌いそうだけど結局仲良くやっているラビット、いつも悲観的で陰鬱だが憎めないキャラのイーヨー、 森に新たにやってきたカンガルーの母子カンガとルー、森一番の賢者と思われていて難しい単語を好んで使うけれど実はそう賢くないフクロウ、 そして森の生き物たちに絶対的な信頼と愛情を寄せられているクリストファー・ロビン君。 お馴染みのキャラたちが物語を繰り広げます。 プーさんは、issueという単語をクシャミと勘違いしたり、自分の家をノックして応答を待ったり、 自分が黒雲に見えるようにと泥のなかを転げまわってハチを騙そうとしたり、やはりヌケています。 でも彼なりに、筋道たてて一生けんめい考えて行動していたりします。それでこちらも思わず納得してしまいます。 食べ過ぎて穴にハマる話、イーヨーがしっぽを紛失した話、北極探検の話、はちみつとりの話、 大洪水の話、よそ者のカンガとルーがやって来る話、など１０話を収録。文字のレイアウトも物語の一部を担っています。 かみあわない会話、プーさんや他のキャラなりの論理が笑え、かわいいイラストも楽しめます。 因みに、辞書を引いただけではわからない英国文化・習慣の影響、英文にかけてあるさまざまな意味などが 一章ずつ丁寧に解説された『「クマのプーさん」を英語で読み直す』を参照しながら読むとよくわかります。

Amei e foi baratinho

Compré la version original y traducción al español y lo estamos leyendo a los hijos para que aprendan el inglés. Les ayuda mucho

Beautiful book