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literaturejuggle 's review for:
Winnie-The-Pooh
by A.A. Milne
I do feel a little uncomfortable reading about Christopher Robin, knowing that he thought his father exploited him, and it does seem totally unfeeling to immortalise your child with lines like when he asks the narrator if he wants to look at him in the bath - obviously your kid is going to get bullied for that at school. Change the names! But just looking at this as a story, it is delightful and funny and charming.
It is framed as the narrator telling Christopher Robin stories of his (Christopher Robin) adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Bear). To be honest, I could do without this framing device.
The chapters are short stories really, but they do occasionally refer back to previous adventures to make it feel a bit like this is one cohesive story. The characters are mostly self-absorbed and rude, so I don't particularly like them, with the exception of Pooh, who aside from his crippling honey addiction, seems to genuinely care about the others. The only story that didn't really land well was the one in which Kanga and Roo come to live in the forest, and the others are jealous, so Rabbit hatches a plan to abduct Roo. Everything turns out all right... for no particular reason really. It's still a really cruel thing to do. Kanga has revenge on Piglet for it, but Rabbit gets away with it. I could have done with a bit more conclusion to each chapter but that's probably just because I'm not a child.
It is framed as the narrator telling Christopher Robin stories of his (Christopher Robin) adventures with Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Bear). To be honest, I could do without this framing device.
The chapters are short stories really, but they do occasionally refer back to previous adventures to make it feel a bit like this is one cohesive story. The characters are mostly self-absorbed and rude, so I don't particularly like them, with the exception of Pooh, who aside from his crippling honey addiction, seems to genuinely care about the others. The only story that didn't really land well was the one in which Kanga and Roo come to live in the forest, and the others are jealous, so Rabbit hatches a plan to abduct Roo. Everything turns out all right... for no particular reason really. It's still a really cruel thing to do. Kanga has revenge on Piglet for it, but Rabbit gets away with it. I could have done with a bit more conclusion to each chapter but that's probably just because I'm not a child.