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The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

a Walk Through the Forest That Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Jan 20, 2017Beatricksy rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The author is too fascinated by her own prose, I fear. Two to three pages at a time are just retellings of the Pooh stories, in her own words, with plucky adjectives deposited here and there, presumably to add flavor. But if I wanted to read Pooh, wouldn't I rather read Milne himself? The pictures are lovely, but the book itself is too breezy, making hugely general claims about children and locations, and it thinks its assumptions are gold. The book also fizzles out at the end, lacking a solid conclusion. Flip through a library copy to see the pictures (big, huge, full color ones for the most part, some of which are gorgeous full page spreads), and skim the paragraphs here and there (I find the most valuable ones to be the historical chapters early on), but don't add it to a personal collection unless you addicted to all things Milne and Pooh.