A. A. Milne and Peter Dennis - Winnie-The-Pooh: The Color Edition

Pros: Milne's playful use of language, charming stories, memorable and loveable characters, Shepards' drawings

Cons: Young readers might be disappointed that Tigger doesn't appear in this collection

The Bottom Line: Tra-la-la, Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum...if you're looking for a classic, this book is the one!

Review: There are wonderful places in great literature that can feel so real that we often wish we could live there, or at least stay for an extended visit. Just a few of the fictional landscapes that I’d love to inhabit include Narnia, Middle Earth, Hogwarts, ...

Pros: Perfect as an English summer day

Cons: Oh, don't be a drip, of course there aren't any

Review: Being on a children's book binge — for reasons soon to emerge — I am revisiting with great joy the scenes of my childhood and certain glimpses of the moon. Books were my world, a better one, often, than that outside the door, nor do I regret, repine, or...

Pros: The illustrations and the text

Cons: None

Review: Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne
October 14 it was 74 years since Winnie-the-Pooh got published for the first time.
Nobody knows how many people that have read to books about this bear with a small brain.

Winnie-the-Pooh (after...

Pros: understandable to any age child

Cons: none

Review: I really don't know anyone that doesn't like Winnie the Pooh or one of his friends. They're all so lovable and cuddly that they're just completely irresistible! Well here is the original book all about the World of Winnie the Pooh and the House at Pooh...

Pros: Extremely fun to read. Great characters.

Cons: Some unique words will be difficult for young readers.

Review: This is where the fun begins. The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends, in which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, Kanga and Roo. Adventures include Pooh's attempt at getting hunny with a balloon, Pooh gets...

Pros: Well written stories, humorous with values included.

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: Winnie the Pooh is a classic, and a necessity for my children. The endearing characters and wonderful stories make it a favourite bedtime story.

Review: "A 'children's book' must be written, not for children, but for the author himself."

Once upon a time a little girl with long blonde pigtails lay on her mother's lap and listened, enthralled, to the stories and songs of the Hundred Acre...