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A review by cocoonofbooks
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
3.0
I found the stories in this collection sweet but less memorable than the first collection. I don't know if I overlooked the faults of several characters in the first collection or if they were just more pronounced here, but it became clear that Rabbit is quite a mean-spirited individual, Eeyore is terribly passive-aggressive, and Christopher Robin is quite self-centered. We meet Tigger for the first time in this book, and he's a pathological liar whose desire to impress everyone lands him and Roo far up in a tree, and Eeyore is injured during the rescue.
At the heart of the book, though, are Pooh and Piglet, and aside from Pooh's incessant hunger (he calls on his friends mainly as a pretext for eating their food) they are both selfless, generous souls. I think they're probably the main reason these books have survived as well-loved classics for so many years.
My son enjoyed the book enough to want to listen to it every night, although he had a hard time following the stories and kept interrupting to ask, "Who's talking? Where's Eeyore? Where's Tigger?" every five seconds. (This may be as much about him as about the book, though he hasn't really done this with other books.) We're going to continue with the last audiobook, which contains the final two books of the series. After that, though, I think I'll be glad to move on to something else.
At the heart of the book, though, are Pooh and Piglet, and aside from Pooh's incessant hunger (he calls on his friends mainly as a pretext for eating their food) they are both selfless, generous souls. I think they're probably the main reason these books have survived as well-loved classics for so many years.
My son enjoyed the book enough to want to listen to it every night, although he had a hard time following the stories and kept interrupting to ask, "Who's talking? Where's Eeyore? Where's Tigger?" every five seconds. (This may be as much about him as about the book, though he hasn't really done this with other books.) We're going to continue with the last audiobook, which contains the final two books of the series. After that, though, I think I'll be glad to move on to something else.