The House at Pooh Corner (Pooh Original Edition) Reviews

• The finest Pooh audiocassettes ever recorded!

  
  By AB2U893HHHG74 on 2000-08-17
  [This is a review of the Traflagar Square/Hodder-Headline audiocassette version] I learned to read by listening (again and again and again and again) to a pair of well-loved and well-worn LPs of the Pooh stories read by Maurice Evans. I always considered them the finest Pooh audiobooks ever recorded. Up until now! Now there's this wonderful series of fully-dramatized adventures of Pooh featuring a brilliant cast of wonderful British actors: Stephen Fry ("Jeeves and Wooster") as Pooh, Geoffrey Palmer ("The Madness of King George") as Eeyore, Judy Dench ("Shakespeare in Love") as Kanga...and best of all, the *incomparable* Jane Horrocks ("Little Voice" and Bubble from "AbFab") as a squeaky, alarmed, and altogether adorable Piglet. You don't have to be a kid to appreciate these fine recordings (and there are plenty of adult Pooh fans out there who will *love* these versions). Accept no substitutes: this is simply the finest Pooh audio series yet created, beating by a *far* distance the Alan Bennett and (ugh!) Charles Kuralt versions. There's more than just this one tape in the series, too. The series includes "Tigger Comes to the Forest" (ISBN: 1840322195); "Piglet Meets a Heffalump" (ISBN: 1840320524) and "Pooh Invents a New Game" (ISBN: 1840322268). Type the 10-digit ISBN number into the Amazon search field to go directly to the webpages for these cassettes.
  
  

• The One Book That Influenced Me the Most

  
  By A2BZBA1NJHCQD8 on 2004-05-21
  I was participating in an on-line discussion on the subject of the single book that had influenced us each the most.

  The book that first came to my mind was "The House at Pooh Corner". It seemed rather silly, but after considerable reflection I decided it was probably the correct answer after all.

  The book was read to me by my Dad before I could read, and I still re-visit it occasionally fifty years later. In fact, I wouldn't be adverse to using it's ending as my epitath.
  
  

• Christopher Robin and his friends are timeless.

  
  By on 1999-06-08
  As long as there are children,the stories of Christopher Robin,Pooh,Piglet,Eeyore,Rabbit,Owl,Kanga,Roo and Tigger will delight them.Eeyore is the perfect pessimist,while Pooh is the open-minded one for whom the world remains a wonder.Kanga proves the best mother,not only for Roo,but Tigger.Tigger is happy and bouncy-because he's Tigger.Piglet shows himself more than once to be a hero.

  Christopher Robin is not always in the forrest,and we learn that he is going to school in the morning-with or without the Spotted or Herbaceous Backson.As Christopher Robin grows,he gradualy leaves the forest and his friends behind.Yet,we must always remember,as Christopher Robin's father reminds us;"Somewhere,a little boy and his bear will always be playing!"
  
  

• The best book by Alan Alexander Milne.By :ALBERTO RENGIFO

  
  By on 2002-02-08
  The book I just read is the best! When I read a Pooh book it was awesome! Really, first I though it would be a babyish book,but it's not. My favourite chracter is Pooh. He is always thinking of hunny, and funny po ems and songs. I also like the words that A.A.MILNE invented I though those words came from another planet. I hope to read all of A.A.milne's books soon. If you don't read it you don't know what you are missing. I have only read The House At Pooh Corner and, I am now reading Winnie-The-Pooh.
  
  

• What richness, what grandeur is so easily captured? :)

  
  By A38UCPTYS6LBHE on 2003-05-15
  This classic is listed under the age group of four to eight, and as a Poohphile I am quite appalled that it is. Winnie the Pooh books have such wit, wisdom, and humor that gets better every time I read them. Their not just for children, they are for everyone. Over the years, Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga, and Roo have become some of my dearest chums. I once heard someone say, or perhaps I read it, that "books are like dear friends, and who has too many friends?" I am quite inclined to agree with that statement. This book is a dear friend of mine and I hope that you shall make it yours. :)
  
  
• The 2nd Best
  By on 1999-12-31
  THis book is the Second best work of whinnie the pooh. Midn you second only to the self titeld Whinnie the pooh book! it's a lovely read a bit bothersome in language at times with strange words like Tiddly Pom and other such! but it's fun great and a wonderful children or ADULT book!
  
  
• Smile All Ye Who Enter Here
  By on 1998-09-02
  Attention: all cranky four year olds, five year olds, eight year olds and thirty-five year olds on long car trips.

  Attention all parents burned out by reading The Pokey Little Puppy over and over again.

  Attention cynics whose primary memory of Winnie-the-Pooh is the Dorothy Parker quote (from her "Constant Reader" column in the New Yorker) "Tontant Weader frowed-up".

  This book is a treasure for all who hear it. There is gentleness and not a little wit in these stories. Contray to the book description above, the book is read by the late Charles Kuralt. His inflection adds much to the story. One senses that he is amused; but he is never condesending. Now I will always prefer Kuralt's version to my own bedtime efforts with my children. Charles Kuralt must have loved Winne-the-Pooh mightily. How lucky we are that he left this delightful gift behind.
  
  

• I've never read anything like it!
  By on 1999-06-09
  This is the beast book I've ever read. The simpelness of this book kept me laughing constantly. It is definatly a book I'll never forget. It is my personal veiw that everyone from ninn to nintey-nine should read this book at least once. If you don't you will never know what you are missing. Pooh may be a bear of very little brain but A.A. Miline must have been a very talented writer.
  
  
• This book is so cute
  By on 1998-05-15
  This book is a really good and funny book. My fav is Piglet because he is so shy and just goes along with what ever Pooh does. I think I read this book because Pooh and all his friends are coming back in now, to prove I love pooh I have a Pooh and FriendsPencil case.
  
  
• For all Pooh fans, a must have!
  By AWPFDWFKYYIF4 on 2001-05-28
  No one is better suited to narrate Pooh than Charles Kuralt, and these audio books are wonderful for listeners of any age. You will find them uplifting, tearful, positive and encouraging. The voice of Charles Kuralt only deepens the experience.
  
  
• A Pleasant Discovery
  By A291QDZ6UPTC07 on 2002-02-08
  Upon looking for reading materials for my fourth grade class I stumbled upon "A House At Pooh Corner" by A.A.Milne. I leafed through it and ...fell in love with it! I have become A Pooh Fan!
  As I informed my students we were going to tead Winnie The Pooh they all whined thinking that it was a "baby book". Well they were immediately charmed by A.A.Milne's beautiful language, unique style and sophisticated humor. They read the book, demanded other works by the same author and completed a project about the book. We`re even celebrating Pooh's Birthday in our classroom and have become Pooh's, Eeyore's, Tigger's, Piglet's, Rabbit's,Kanga's, Roo's ,Owl's and Cristopher Robbin's eternal fans. Do Not Miss the chance of a close encounter with the finest literature.
  
  
• The Hundred Acre Wood, a favorite place to visit
  By A2P82VXUWA6TJD on 2005-12-14
  I actually enjoy Winnie-the-Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner much more as an adult than I did as a child. Maybe this is because I was not properly introduced to them at an early age. I am sure that the Disney shorts set some preconceptions in my head (namely, that these are merely childish stories). I think that the original Winnie-the-Pooh features from Disney are wonderful gems, but they do, nonetheless, depart significantly in overall character from Milne's stories. It is also true that there is a great deal of cleverness and insight here that I did not discover or appreciate until I was grown up.
  
  It turns out that these are beautiful, masterly crafted tales full of witty dialogue, lively songs, gentle landscapes, and real warmth. Shepard's lovingly rendered illustrations do not simply complement the stories, but are easily the equal of Milne's narratives.
  
  I look forward to reading these books to my boys--when they are ready for them. In the meantime, I am quite content to snuggle up with these tales myself, again and again.
  
  
• The Pooh Review by Rafael Velasquez
  By A291QDZ6UPTC07 on 2002-02-08
  The house at Pooh Corner is a really good book everyone should read it .I read it for a class project I thuoght it would be a baby book but it wasn't. It was really funny, and it had strange words.I didn't know that pooh liked condesed milk, or that tigger lived with kanga and roo. I wish A.A.Milne had written more books about pooh the books he wrote about pooh were really funny. I wonder what would have happened if A.A.M. had written more pooh books maybe even a pooh movie. The books were really funny and I love how A.A.M. writes. Pooh makes the best poems i've heard. My personal favorite character is Tigger his attitude is kind of like mine. I woud reccomend this book a lot because it's really funny and the way A.A.M. gives live to the characters is really cool nothing like the disney one wich is almost boring
  
  
• The Great Pooh Book! By Samuel Rondon
  By on 2002-02-08
  The House At Pooh Corner is very good and and very funny. His way of writing is very enjoyable.People might think this book is really boring like y thought at first but now I think differently.The House At Pooh CornerIs nothing like the Disney version.The way A.A. Milne writes is like a new language from outer space, its really good and funny. The character I liked the most was piglet and how he goes side by sideside with Pooh, his cowardice and his way of talking. I highly reccomend this book!
  
  
• Read this book! (if you like Winnie-the-Pooh).
  By on 2006-10-02
  The House at Pooh Corner is yet another book in the Pooh series. This book is ok, I say this only because it's not as good as the original Winnie-the-Pooh, (When We Were Very Young, etc.) But with A.A. Milne's storytelling and Ernest H. Sheppards fantastic drawings you can't go wrong.
  
  

• Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
• When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition)
• Now We Are Six Deluxe Edition
• Winnie the Pooh 80th Anniversary Edition
• James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Great and Small