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Winnie-the-Pooh: The Graphic Novel Adaptation

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The beloved children’s classic appears as a graphic novel for the first time

PEN Graphic Novel Award winner Travis Dandro takes a left turn from his detailed autobiography and returns with the charming tales of Winnie-the-Pooh. In 2015, the A. A. Milne childrens’ classic, long since viewed as the benchmark for intelligent and whimsical storytelling, slipped into the public domain. The beloved series now gets the comics treatment from a gifted artist at the peak of his cartooning prowess.

Dandro expands the world of Hundred Acre Wood in all directions, creating stunning full-page tableaus where Pooh and everybody’s favorite characters―Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, and of course, Christopher Robin―to romp, argue, fail, and love. Indebted to the unforgettable pen-and-ink drawings of E. H. Shephard, this addition to the canon of timeless literature for all ages encompasses all of Winnie-the-Pooh’s original adventures, alongside a brand-new story from Dandro created exclusively for this volume.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 2024

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A.A. Milne

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Alan Alexander Milne (pronounced /ˈmɪln/) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems.

A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London, to parents Vince Milne and Sarah Marie Milne (née Heginbotham) and grew up at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a small public school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells who taught there in 1889–90. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied on a mathematics scholarship. While there, he edited and wrote for Granta, a student magazine. He collaborated with his brother Kenneth and their articles appeared over the initials AKM. Milne's work came to the attention of the leading British humour magazine Punch, where Milne was to become a contributor and later an assistant editor.

Milne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He was discharged on February 14, 1919.

After the war, he wrote a denunciation of war titled Peace with Honour (1934), which he retracted somewhat with 1940's War with Honour. During World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer P. G. Wodehouse, who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprisoned for a year. Wodehouse made radio broadcasts about his internment, which were broadcast from Berlin. Although the light-hearted broadcasts made fun of the Germans, Milne accused Wodehouse of committing an act of near treason by cooperating with his country's enemy. Wodehouse got some revenge on his former friend by creating fatuous parodies of the Christopher Robin poems in some of his later stories, and claiming that Milne "was probably jealous of all other writers.... But I loved his stuff."

He married Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt in 1913, and their only son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born in 1920. In 1925, A. A. Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. During World War II, A. A. Milne was Captain of the Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain 'Mr. Milne' to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid and by August 1953 "he seemed very old and disenchanted".

He was 74 years old when he passed away in 1956.

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Profile Image for Rod Brown.
7,457 reviews287 followers
May 19, 2024
Public Domain Pooh!

I thought that as soon as Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain some comic book publisher would quickly put out a straight-up Pooh graphic novel adaptation. Two years down the road, while there have been a couple comic series taking Pooh into dark fantasy realms, this is the very first time I have found A. A. Milne's original stories reinterpreted in comic book form. And, boy, was it worth the wait!

Travis Dandro masterfully brings Milne's witty dialogue to life in delightful layouts with expert pacing. He rightly ditches much of the Milne's narration, showing us the story instead of letting his pages become burdened by giant blocks of text. He also pays homage to E. H. Shepard by including the images we all remember from the original books amidst his own original illustrations.

Sure, I could quibble about Dandro's art style and word choices here and there, but I'm so happy to finally have a true Pooh graphic novel that tells all the stories from the first book. I dearly hope Dandro is working on an adaptation of The House at Pooh Corner. I can't wait to see what he does with Tigger.


(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh books my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.)
Profile Image for Drew Canole.
3,201 reviews44 followers
September 19, 2024
A really excellent adaptation of the original book. Travis Dandro nails the look and feeling. His pacing is excellent, leaving lots of white space and opening for the quiet serene pieces and cluttering up the pages when all the animals are acting wild. I prefered reading this over the original.
Profile Image for Julia Pika.
1,057 reviews
May 8, 2024
A funny and weirdly calming graphic novel.
Profile Image for Brent Staggs.
7 reviews
May 9, 2025
The best Winnie The Pooh comics, and Travis Dandro has said he was inspired by the original illustrations of E.H Shepard along with the paneling/pages of Krazy Kat, which really show, and make the comic all the better. It also happens to be my favorite comic of all time. If you don't know Krazy Kat, it was a comic strip from 1916-1944 and was basically the comic that create the whole language of comics. It brings to life the denizens of The Hundred Acre Wood more than anything else that has come out of Winnie The Pooh, outside of maybe the original books. It follows the sentimentalist values on life, love and friendship that Winnie The Pooh ever so does, and really shows how charming these characters really are, without all the Disney-isms

Honestly, one of the best drawn recent comic i've ever seen. It's minimalistic at one period, densely detailed at another, and almost abstract at times. I've never heard of Travis Dandro before this, but i'll definitely follow him now.

It goes to my 'Cozy Yearly Re-reads' like a Frog in The Fall. It's a warm blanket that is always there for you, like Carl Barks' Donald and Scrooge McDuck comics. It takes me back to my childhood, which is the best praise I can give for a book. Probably not for everyone, but I don't mind reading kids books as an adult, though Winnie The Pooh is timeless.

The only downsides I found are, the writing isn't as good as A.A Milne's (who would have guessed! Milne was a fantastic writer. and some of the page layouts will be hard for kids.


4.5/5. A must have for Winnie The Pooh fans.
Profile Image for Kayla Zabcia.
1,212 reviews8 followers
August 10, 2024
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A graphic novel rendition of the first installation of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A.A. Milne - I do so hope they continue the adaptations, because I'd love to see Tigger with the rest of the gang.

This rendition has an excellent use of space and perspective that you don't often see; though there's no color, it is still a visual delight resulting in fantastic storytelling. The vibes were impeccable, and it brought me back to my childhood when my mother would read the stories to my brother and me, voices and all, while my brother and I rolled around bellyaching with laughter.
Profile Image for Beth.
142 reviews2 followers
April 3, 2025
I was really excited for this too...there were some moments that made me chuckle, but I wish it would've been better :'(
Profile Image for Cristine Braddy.
342 reviews10 followers
July 2, 2025
Since the first time I read Pooh to my kids, I have known that Pooh is wasted on children. This retelling keeps all the wittiness and joy.
Profile Image for Desa Rae.
116 reviews4 followers
September 29, 2025
The cutest book with lots of pictures, humor, and on some pages it looks like a graphic novel. My 4-year-old loves!
Profile Image for Kelsey Morgan.
145 reviews25 followers
June 30, 2025
Absolutely wonderful! Dandro should do the other Pooh stories, too!
Profile Image for Susan.
837 reviews
July 4, 2024
I never really liked any of tge Winnie-the-Pooh stories but I did find this graphic novel funny and entertaining.
Profile Image for Bill Doughty.
403 reviews31 followers
January 27, 2025
I first discovered Travis Dandro via his comic strip, Mr. Gnu, in the University of Maine newspaper, The Maine Campus (though it later got syndicated to other college papers, too, I've read). It was a very funny strip in its own warped way, featuring characters who traveled via nipple propellers, a cereal themed around Sammy Davis, Jr's glass eye, and a grandpa whose reaction to being trapped under a boulder was to whip out a copy of Hustler to pass the time, among other awesomely weird concepts. I bring this up because although I was a fan, I never would have imagined nearly 30 years later that he'd produce such a quiet, calming, delightful adaptation of A.A. Milne's first Winnie-the-Pooh book. All the dialog is directly from Milne's pen, and though there's very little of the narration included, it's clear that every scene is straight out of the books, too. The cartooning is delightful, very inspired by Ernest Shepard's illustrations from the book, but definitely retaining Dandro's own touches. In places there looked to be a strong Jeff Smith influence, too, particularly in the wintry nature scenes.
Profile Image for Darla.
4,896 reviews1,268 followers
June 12, 2024
Love that "chubby little cubby, all stuffed with fluff?" Then you will want to get a copy of this new graphic novel adaptation to enjoy. There is an example below of the graphics. They are pen and ink without coloration, but remarkably detailed. This is a new variation of the original stories giving us more of the images and a bit less of the words. Enjoy!

The ten stories included are:
Chapter One - In Which We Are Introduced To Winnie-The-Pooh And Some Bees, And The Stories Begin
Chapter Two - In Which Pooh Goes Visiting And Gets In A Tight Place
Chapter Three - In Which Pooh And Piglet Go Hunting And Nearly Catch A Woozle
Chapter Four - In Which Eeyore Loses A Tail And Pooh Finds One
Chapter Five - In Which Piglet Meets A Heffalump
Chapter Six - In Which Eeyore Has A Birthday And Gets 2 Presents
Chapter Seven - In Which Kanga And Baby Roo Come To The Forest, And Piglet Has a Bath
Chapter Eight - In Which Christopher Robin Leads An Exposition To The North Pole
Chapter Nine - In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded By Water
Chapter Ten - In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh A Party, And We Say Good-Bye



Profile Image for Becky.
6,204 reviews304 followers
August 21, 2024
GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION. Winnie the Pooh: The Graphic Novel Adaptation. A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Travis Dandro. 2024. 248 pages. [Source: Library] [4 stars]

First sentence: That buzzing noise means something. You don't get a buzzing noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something. If there's a buzzing noise somebody's making a buzzing noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing noise that I know of is because you're a bee and the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey and the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

This is a graphic novel adaptation of A.A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh. The original, I believe, has always had *some* illustrations. Now it gets the graphic novel treatment. The dialogue remains much as it always was. Though I haven't read the original in a few years so I cannot say with one hundred percent certainty that all of the dialogue has made the transition. I only noticed a few additions to the text. Notably, the bees get some dialogue which is adorable. This is just the first book, so NO Tigger.

For me the first and second books blend together into "The World of Pooh" (quite literally that is the omnibus edition I grew up with). These illustrations are not exactly like the original OR like Disney. I thought most characters were illustrated fairly well. The only one I did NOT care for was Rabbit. But I did appreciate revisiting the book, the characters, and the HUMS.
Profile Image for Matt Glaviano.
1,439 reviews24 followers
May 28, 2024
Thanks to the magic of public domain, Dandro has published a very pretty graphic adaptation of Milne's classic.

Very pretty is key here. Dandro's art - heavily (and wonderfully) indebted to E. H. Shepard original illustrations - is gorgeous. It captures the spirit of Shepard while expanding it to tell the story itself. Dandro does some great work conveying the changes of season throughout the book. There's art in here that I would like to frame and hang seasonally around my house. It's truly a beautiful book to look at.

How the art works from a storytelling point of view is more of a mixed bag. Sometimes the visuals work to tell the story - but it is not always successful. Some of the page concepts are confusing and make following the panels a muddle. And while Dandro tries to stay faithful to Milne by using a lot of the dialogue from Pooh, it's not always a good choice for a graphic novel. Panels are frequently too full of text, always a downer in a genre highly dependent on visual storytelling.

Too wordy and occasionally confusing, this is not a perfect book. But it's pretty as hell and well worth a look if you've read Pooh and would like to revisit Milne's Hundred Acre Wood.

And now I'm off to buy frames to put those pages in when I cut them out to hang around my house.
Profile Image for McKenzie Richardson.
Author 68 books67 followers
August 12, 2025
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A sweet graphic novel adaptation of some classic Hundred Acre Wood adventures. This book collects the stories from the first Winnie-the-Pooh book in an adorable comic-style presentation. Includes popular stories such as Pooh getting stuck in Rabbit's front door, Kanga and Roo's arrival, and the flooding of the forest.

A lovely new way to revisit some of the stories of Pooh and his friends.

I didn't always love Dandro's versions of the characters (I don't know why but Rabbit really creeps me out), but there are some really fun layouts.

Overall, this is a sweet reimagining. I definitely enjoyed rereading these stories in a new format.
Profile Image for Gabrielle Stoller.
2,264 reviews44 followers
January 20, 2026
Alright.

So Winnie the Pooh is my utter jam. I am so very particular when it comes to the silly old bear. So imagine my skepticism when I stumbled upon a graphic novel adaptation browsing my library. but with Pooh and his Hundred Acre Wood friends being in the public domain, anything goes

I am happy to report this honors A.A.Milne and his creations beautifully. all of the stories are familiar and loved with a classic comic book style (Calvin and Hobbes like) reimagining. I am ever so thankful for how the beloved stories are illustrated and not digitized, not over the top....I felt like I was still deep in the Hundred Acre Wood where Christopher Robin played.

I'll be curious how my even more purest friends feel but as for me, I didn't hate it like I expected.
Profile Image for David Bruggink.
Author 1 book4 followers
June 18, 2024
My daughter and I loved this comic-style adaptation of A. A. Milne's classic! If you're familiar with that - or the various Disney adaptations - you will find a lot to love here, in the humor, charming characters, and also Dandro's beautiful depiction of Hundred Acre Wood. In my view, the striking line work presents a slightly starker view of the natural world, but it pairs very well with the classic characters. Around our household, there's been no shortage of funny lines quoted in the weeks since reading this. Definitely one to read and cherish with your family!
781 reviews6 followers
June 21, 2024
I love Winnie the Pooh. I was not thrilled about the Blood and Honey horror movie that was announced after Pooh entered the public domain. This is a much more respectful nod to AA Milne's work. I love the size and shape of this book. It is cute even if you don't open it. Some of the artwork inside is frameworthy. Some of the pages do get a little chaotic and busy. I like the story better in the traditional format, but I liked the idea of making a graphic novel version, and I hope Dandro continues with the series so that we can meet Tigger.
Profile Image for Jamaica Tan.
187 reviews1 follower
July 1, 2024
Such an adorable illustration of the classic winnie the pooh story! It gives the story a brand new rendition, and makes reading so much easier and fun!

I especially love how each page is filled with different ways of illustrations - instead of just boxing up each comic strip, each strip takes on a different form, and the arrangements are really pretty. If there's something to nitpick on, its gonna be a coloured comic. Otherwise, this is definitely one lively and playfully crafted piece of artwork.
Profile Image for Roben .
3,101 reviews19 followers
August 27, 2024
What a delightful book Travis Dandro has created! Every day is better if it has a bit of Winnie the Pooh and friends included in it.
This would make a wonderful family read aloud. Oh - and did you notice the Mr. T Bee? Check out page 27!
It certainly brightened my day!
Profile Image for charlotte.
287 reviews15 followers
October 1, 2024
[ 5 stars ]

this adaptation was endlessly charming and heartwarming. i love winnie the pooh, and reading this graphic novel that was done remarkably well brought me back to my childhood. so many warm fuzzies.
Profile Image for Gabby.
253 reviews
October 11, 2024
There’s just something about Winnie the Pooh that makes me so happy! The graphic novel version of the classic story was perfectly done by Dandro, and while I wish it was in color, the illustrations perfectly capture how simple the stories are.
Profile Image for Amylou314.
218 reviews1 follower
March 9, 2025
What a beautiful rendition of an already endearing and beautiful tale, the adventures of everyone's favorite bear Pooh. This edition has wonderful graphics carrying the reader along further into the often whimsical journeys of Pooh and his friends. Thankful for this delight!
Profile Image for Jack Reickel.
400 reviews4 followers
July 5, 2025
This is a very solid iteration of the public-domain Winnie-the-Pooh. It doesn't bring much new to the writing but the interpretation of some of the moments in the Hundred Acre Wood into graphic form is lovely.
Profile Image for Erin.
627 reviews2 followers
June 1, 2024
Honestly, I find the story easier to follow in regular text than in comics.  But the illustrations are cute, and Winnie-the-Pooh always has my heart.
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2,285 reviews6 followers
June 7, 2024
A cute rendition of a classic. I still adore the original illustrations though.
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