Pooh's Bedtime Book

Our two year old loves this book - the stories/poems are wonderfully creative, and this nice board book is very sturdy. The drawings are the "old style" pictures - really creative and cute. Highly recommend!

A.A. Milne was born in England in 1882 and wrote some delightful books about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin. Pooh was actually inspired by a teddy bear belonging to Milne's son, Christopher. His books have been translated into over two dozen languages are favorites of children and adults throughout the world. So wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. "What would I do?" I said to Pooh, "If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True, It isn't much fun for One, but Two Can stick together," says Pooh, says he. "That's how it is," says Pooh. -Us Two, pg. 3 Ernest H. Shepard illustrated the Pooh books and Milne was so pleased with the drawings for the first book that he invited Shepard out to his home in Surrey, England so he could sketch the actual woodland settings for the stories. In this book we find "Us Two," "Winnie-The-Pooh And Some Bees," "Sneezles"and "An Expotition To the North Pole" followed by two poems and then a story about Tiger coming to the forest and a prayer. In the first story, Pooh falls out of a tree and it wasn't quite what he meant to do. He really just wanted some honey. "Sneezles" is about Christopher Robin which is a real tongue twister. In the next story after a simple meal of marmalade spread lightly over a honeycomb or two, Pooh goes off to see if Christopher Robin wants to go off on an "Expotition." Yes, that is the spelling. Then, I the middle of the night, Winnie-the-Pooh woke up suddenly and found a tiger named Tigger. The two have a hilarious little conversation and then after breakfast they go off to see piglet, Eeyore and Kanga. These are the most delightful stories to read to children and have that added touch of charming humor that will delight adults and children alike. The illustrations are quite cute and the rhymes invariably silly. ~The Rebecca Review

Far more wieldy than the complete works of Pooh, I heartily recommend this for wee ones who are just being introduced to AA Milne`s Winnie the Pooh. This slim, light volume with an assortment of three stories and five poems and color illustrations on every page, (varying in size from one-eighth to two-thirds of a page,) is easy to hold and view. My boys, now five and seven, still find the big book rather daunting, and will ask for the "bee and balloon story," or the "Tigger story" or the "North Pole" story from this book, rather than the larger dust collector. And I should mention that the poem "Sneezles" is a favorite whenever we have to lie in bed with a cold, and this is far easier to take to bed and less lumpy to sleep on.