Monday, April 2, 2018

The Complete Tales (And Poems) of Winnie-the-Pooh written by A.A. Milne









      Remember watching Winnie-the-Pooh shows either on TV or VHS tapes, (before DVDs were invented)? I don’t know about you but I never grew up reading Winnie-the-Pooh until middle school when a friend introduced the books! Anyways, if you have had love Winnie-the-Pooh coming to life on your TV screen then I would suggest you dig deeper and discover the stories that were told at The Hundred Acre Wood.
         As it says in both books, A.A. Mile had a son named Christopher Robin, and Christopher Robin had once owned a stuffed bear, a toy donkey, and a toy pig. Thus his stuffed animals gave A.A. Milne the idea to turn his son’s toys into something creative that children and adults love to read
     Now, I bet you wondered where the heck I have gone with this blog, I shall tell you, A.A. Milne wrote two Winnie-the Pooh books. The first Winnie-the-Pooh book was titled, Winnie-the-Pooh, (how appropriate!). The second book was titled The House At Pooh Corner.  But the beauty of it all is that you can get those two books in one collection! Did that sound like a TV commercial? But wait there’s more! A.A. Milne not only write Winnie-the-Pooh stories, he also published poems. In that case, if you wanted the whole volume of Winnie-the-Pooh stories and enjoy reading poems in the same book then you must read, The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh. The poems came in two parts, the first part is titled, When We Were Very Young. The second part of the poems was called, Now We Are Six. The poems were very random mostly. For example, some poems were about Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh, other poems were about kings and queens, and the rest of the poems were just plain random.
      In concluding, there was nothing different between the books, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh and The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh. Except, that the Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh does have poems that were written by A.A. Milne. Overall, these books are great for adults and children to read and be entertained by a little boy and his favorite stuffed teddy bear.

Trivial Questions:
1) What is Winnie-the-Pooh's real name?
2) What is Piglet's full name? 
3) According to Owl, what is the opposite of an introduction? 
4) Where does Christopher Robin go in the mornings before he visits the Hundred Acre Wood? 


Milne, A. A. The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh. N.p.: Dutton Children's, 1993. Print. 

Milne, A. A. The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh. N.p.: Dutton Children's, 1996. Print. 




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