bmarieblair 's review for:

Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne

5.0

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Having grown up with the Disney interpretation of Pooh, like most people, I was delighted and surprised to find so much familiar and comforting about this book. There’s no Tigger, and our 100 acre wood gang commit a felony, but it was still a delight from start to finish. I listened to the Stephen Fry, Judi Dench dramatization. The best part for me was undoubtedly Geoffrey Palmer’s Eeyore, a roll he was born to play apparently! Listening to this cast helped bring out the British humor in the story, something I never noticed in the Disney version. Winnie the Pooh has always been a very comforting character for me, and as (funnily enough) Judi Dench says to Geoffrey Palmer’s character as they're reading Winnie the Pooh together in As Time Goes By, “no one’s too old for that.”