Rating: 5/5
Winnie-the-Pooh
By A. A. Milne
When my mother first put this book in my hands, I laughed because I only knew of the silly TV shows that were made after Milne wrote the stories. I had no idea that actually this was a very well-written and reasonable book for my age, and my thirteen-year-old sister felt fine reading it aloud to me from the beginning. It’s a really brilliant book and I would even read it over!
Winnie-the-Pooh was a talking bear, and he got into lots of adventures with his friends Eeyore, Owl, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, and finally little boy Christopher Robin. I found out that Christopher Robin was the small son of A. A. Milne, and the animals in the book are his toys! The toys are now in a museum. One man found out that Christopher had a toy that had been forgotten about – and that was Penguin. So the man is currently writing a book with poor Penguin in it!
I thought it was interesting also as the author sort of worked as a narrator, who did his job very well, and made every sentence have some kind of fun in it. One of the stories is when Owl finds what he believes is a bellpull, yanks it right off, and later when Pooh comes along telling him that Eeyore had lost his tail, he realised that his bellpull was the tail. I found this particularly funny! It was one of the best bits in the book when Pooh said: “Owl, Eeyore was very fond of that.” “Fond of it? Whatever do you mean?” “He was rather attached to it.”
I would certainly read this book again, as it was really great and intriguing. I really loved it!