Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

They were such a cute pair of books that even after several years, I remember the little details that made me smile in spite of myself.

For instance, the scene where Piglet and Pooh are chasing around their own footprints in the snow while wondering just what kind of monster they might be tracking....it was simply adorable.

I actually saw the movies that made A.A. Milne so famous before I ever knew that Pooh bear existed in prose form. I was singing along with Pooh's "Rumbly in My Tumbly" from the original movie long before I picked up the novels.

Perhaps it was because I never expected Winnie the Pooh and all his friends to have been born out of a book that these two volumes endeared themselves all the more to me. Imagine....Piglet and Tigger and Rabbit and Eeyore, those characters who permeated my childhood memories, were actually based off books!

And I love books!

Needless to say, as soon as I found out, I purchased the entire Winnie the Pooh set and read through it all in nearly one sitting.

Some might think these books are just for little kids who have nothing better to read. For those snot-nosed 2nd graders who aren't smart enough for the Harry Potter series (which, by the way, is not true. I don't think anyone ever falls below the intelligence requirement for J.K. Rowling's works. No disrespect). But this isn't a problem of intelligence. I feel that these are good for the wrinkles in my brain, by providing a nice little break from those sophisticated works of Dostoevsky and Machiavelli and such.

I mean, who wants to read heavily-laden books full of philosophy and history all the time? Your brain will wrinkle so fast it'll be shriveled up by the time you're thirty.

We need to loosen up a bit once in a while.

For those who want to smile, or for those who wish to meet some characters that will be remembered for a lifetime, or even for those who want to revisit their forgotten childhood days, Winnie the Pooh and his animal friends (and Christopher Robin) will speak out to you in every little line of these two books.