About this title: One snowy day, Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet decide to build a house for Eeyore, but they find that they have made an awful mistake. The story, in which a house is built, from the book "The House at Pooh Corner", is retold in rebus pictures.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780525444435ISBN:0525444432
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 161 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780525444435ISBN:0525444432
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 161 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton Books
Date Published: 10/2001
ISBN-13:9780525467564ISBN:0525467564
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. 161 p. illus. 20 cm. Reprinted September 1961 in...new format designed by Warren Chappell. read more
Description: Very Good. 0717264475 Great condition Illustrated Hard cover book, clean pages, some shelf wear rubs to corners, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Fine. 0717264475 Excellent condition Illustrated Hard cover books, clean pages, corners crisp, mild shelf rub, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Description: Very Good. 0140361219 Great condition Soft Cover book, clean pages, mild creases to spine, light edge/corner rubs, this book is GREAT! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: A Golden Book
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780307070722ISBN:0307070727
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Date Stamp On First Page, Covers Rubbed, Corenrs/Edges Bumped, Binding Loose, Text Is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
"Pooh. People hear that you enjoy Winnie-the-Pooh and they think "How cute" or "What a weirdo." Pooh is much more interesting and layered than the Disney-fied version. It's a beautiful portrait of an innocent world, the Hundred Acre Wood, and how the creatures therein face the stumbling blocks of life. Granted, their stumbling blocks are how to get more honey and where to find Piglet, etc. The writing is sharper and funnier than you'd imagine, and charming and spare and would speak to fans of classics or British fiction--it has that kind of quaint formality. Characters say "Tut tut." Marvelous. Equally marvelous is the audiobook version narrated by Peter Dennis. Truly, truly delightful.
Here is the beginning of The House at Pooh Corner: "An introduction is to introduce people, but Christopher Robin and his friends, who have already been introduced to you, are now going to say Good-bye. So this is the opposite. When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said 'The what of a what?' which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.""
"Winnie-the-Pooh has been beloved by several generations because of the wonderful way Milne captures the imaginative play of children. In this book, he introduces the characters of Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga, and Roo, and their adventures commence. These are the sort of pretend adventures a child might enact alone with their stuffed toys, but they are written with the sophisticated and original perspective of an adult who develops each toy as a unique character, and this takes the simple stories to a higher level.
Milne's excellent writing, wonderful use of language, subtle and silly sense of humor, and the unforgettable eccentricities of his characters make the world of Pooh a delightful place. Like other classic children's stories, Winnie-the-Pooh may not appeal to every reader, but every child ought to have a chance to experience it. If it is enjoyed at first, successive readings will provide even greater appreciation as the children grasp more of the story's subtleties. Since much of the humor hinges on dialogue, such as Rabbit's "Oh, must you?" when his greedy guest announces his departure, younger children may need adult help understanding some of the story events.
Winnie-the-Pooh will appeal best to children are old enough to engage in imaginative play. It's a good read-aloud for the 4-8 crowd, but the 8-12 age group will also enjoy it as a read-alone."
"It's no surprise Walt Disney picked up the rights to A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh series. Like Peter Pan, Alice and Wonderland and Mary Poppins, the series sits comfortably amongst the classics of imaginative British children's fiction -- and it hasn't tarnished in its old age.
This is my first proper read through the novel -- the last time the reading was done at my bedside by my father -- and I am relieved to be able to say that, yes, it is as good as I remember it. It is a convincing portrayal of a young boy's childhood "adventures" with his stuffed animals, all of whom have distinct personalities, as stuffed animals tend to do. A.A. Milne is the storyteller here -- he is Christopher Robin's father -- and his strength is his refusal to condescend to his characters and their Fiercely Dangerous Adventures, most of which involve one or another silly misunderstanding and are flubbed or forgotten, ultimately, when Pooh's stomach reminds him it is time for a snack. Milne writes with gentle, sunny humor, and I can see why parents enjoyed reading this book to their children just as much as children enjoyed listening to it.
I write that last sentence in the past tense because I doubt, deep down, that many children and their parents bother much with the source Winnie-the-Pooh material anymore, now that Disney has transformed its simple 1970s-era short films into the behemoth Pooh industry we see today. I suppose a kid who grew up watching the daily Pooh cartoons, playing the Pooh video games, wearing the Pooh-shaped slippers, etc., would probably be disappointed in the delicate, unflashy wordplay and irony of Milne's original. And that's a real shame."
"I wonder whether this book would have lasted so long if not for the illustrations of E.H.Shepard. They are truly excellent. And so much a part of the book's success I wonder if they can now be ever untangled.
I came to this book through the illustrations, portions of the stories and the number of children in my classes who loved to borrow the books from me and from the library.
I decided to read it finally because I am doing a second reading of the superb parody of literary academia by Frederick C. Crews - "The Pooh Perplex - A Student Casebook." It consists of 12 short interpretations of the Pooh books with such delicious titles as: O Felix Culpa! The Sacramental Meaning of "Winnie-the-Pooh." A la recherche du Pooh perdu. A Bourgeois Writer's Proletarian Fables. It is "an absolutely withering destruction of the abuses of academic criticsm."
But back to the Original Milne!!! The writing I found twee and whimsical, often suffocatingly so. Never the accompanying drawings which often saved me. Often the stories were so slight and the characters so sharp that I wondered whether that was what Milne was actually on about. I loved Piglet's attempts to withdraw from uncomfortable situations; Pooh - dumb, gluttonous and caring; and poor Eeyore - surely the first depressive to appear in Children's Literature. There was enough to help me make it to the end. But I am 61 and not 6, and I'm sure I would have breezed through either as child or adult reader-to-child. So 5 stars to text with reservations as adult, none as child. Unreserved 5 stars to the illustrations!!!
Dorothy Parker, however, gave "The House on Pooh Corner" FAR less in her New Yorker review of October 20th, 1928!!! Writing as the 'Constant Reader' she opened her review quoting the poem, or Pooh's HUM, from the first story (I think!). She herself called it 'cadenced whimsy'. I'd like to know whether it is Milne writing or Milne-as-Pooh?? It is pretty awful. Pooh composes it as he waits outside in the snow for Piglet to emerge from his house.
The more it Snows-tiddeley-pom, The more it Goes-tiddley-pom, The more it Goes-tiddley-pom, On Snowing.
And nobody Knows-tiddley-pom, How cold my Toes-tiddley-pom, How cold my Toes-tiddley-pom, Are Growing.
Dotty continues a little further on: "In fact so good a Hum did it seem that he and Piglet started right out through the snow to Hum it Hopefully to Eeyore. Oh, darn - there I've gone and given away the plot. Oh, I could bite my tongue out."
Dotty however does NOT comment on the fact that it is in this context that Milne reveals Piglet's reluctance to be discomforted ie. here Piglet doing his darndest NOT to go visiting in the snow. He "timidly" suggests that they go back home to practise the poem and sing it to Eeyore at some later date - "tomorrow - or - or the next day, when we happen to see him." But Pooh says they can pracise as they go along, and anyway it's an Outdoor Song and as such must be sung in the snow. (Poor Piglet!)
I will now quote the end of the review for your entertainment by BOTH Milne and Dotty: "'Are you sure?' asked Piglet anxiously. "'Well, you'll see, Piglet, when you listen. Because this is how it begins. The more it snows, tiddley-pom-' "'Tiddley what?' said Piglet."( Dotty: He took, as you might say, the very words out of your correspondent's mouth.) "'Pom,' said Pooh. 'I put that in to make it more hummy.'" Dotty: And it is that word "hummy", my darlings, that makes the the first place in "The House on Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up. Which is why she had titled her review : Far from Well.
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