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Winnie-the-Pooh: A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1
Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.
Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, the 10 stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these immortal stories authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin, who wrote, "Peter Dennis has made himself Pooh's Ambassador Extraordinare and no bear has ever had a more devoted friend. So if you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter."
This collection includes the chapters:
In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
In Which Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party, and We Say Goodbye
All the material is unabridged and taken from WINNIE-THE-POOH Copyright 1926 by E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., Copyright Renewal 1954 by A.A. Milne. All material Copyright under the Berne Convention. Recorded by permission of The Trustees of the Pooh Properties. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard copyright as above and used by permission of the Estate of E.H. Shepard. Color Illustrations ©1991 Dutton Children's Books.
Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, the 10 stories of Winnie-the-Pooh performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these immortal stories authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin, who wrote, "Peter Dennis has made himself Pooh's Ambassador Extraordinare and no bear has ever had a more devoted friend. So if you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter."
This collection includes the chapters:
In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin
In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place
In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle
In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One
In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump
In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents
In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water
In Which Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party, and We Say Goodbye
All the material is unabridged and taken from WINNIE-THE-POOH Copyright 1926 by E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., Copyright Renewal 1954 by A.A. Milne. All material Copyright under the Berne Convention. Recorded by permission of The Trustees of the Pooh Properties. Illustrations by E.H. Shepard copyright as above and used by permission of the Estate of E.H. Shepard. Color Illustrations ©1991 Dutton Children's Books.
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Published December 28, 2003
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A.A. Milne
1,841 books3,682 followersAlan 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.
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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December 20, 2025
I loved these books when I was younger, and have read them to my children and granddaughter. Still, sometimes when nothing else works to get to sleep, I borrow from the library and let the sweet narration of Peter Dennis calm me and lull me to sleep. I do listen some, and it’s worthy of 5 stars in this genre, but the narration is equally superb and relaxing. 💗💗💗
September 1, 2022
Maybe 3.5. Good fun and rather surreal to revisit as an adult.
June 9, 2020
Who doesn't love Winnie the Pooh? This was such a cute book. The narrator was superb. Highly recommended for all ages. Especially adults, because we all need Pooh bear now and then.
January 8, 2022
Peter Dennis is the best narrator ever for Pooh. HANDS DOWN.
November 18, 2025
Delightful. Listened with the kids in the car it is broken up into clever little stories of poohs adventures that we all enjoyed. The kids occasionally didn’t understand the English accent and vocabulary but they are also now going around quoting “you never can tell with bees” I was annoyed with piglets voicing at first but I grew to accept the quirkiness of it. I’m excited to listen to the other volumes.
April 11, 2020
Total classics! Strange Piglet voice but adorable!
June 7, 2025
Toby's Review: Though never asked for "Winnie the Pooh" by name, Toby could not stop giggling at Piglet.
Tommy's Review: The tell-tale sign of a fantastic children's audiobook occurs when I find myself accidentally listening to it without Toby with me. And it happened almost every morning I dropped him off at preschool. No stranger to Winnie the Pooh, I was so impressed how easy the audiobook performer took me down known stories and made them fresh adventures. Peter Dennis brings our Hundred Acre Hood friends to life without ever leaning on Disney's adaptations.
Mr. Tommy: Would recommend this to all families of all ages! Wonderful performance, wonderfully witty, and wonderfully positive.
Tommy's Review: The tell-tale sign of a fantastic children's audiobook occurs when I find myself accidentally listening to it without Toby with me. And it happened almost every morning I dropped him off at preschool. No stranger to Winnie the Pooh, I was so impressed how easy the audiobook performer took me down known stories and made them fresh adventures. Peter Dennis brings our Hundred Acre Hood friends to life without ever leaning on Disney's adaptations.
Mr. Tommy: Would recommend this to all families of all ages! Wonderful performance, wonderfully witty, and wonderfully positive.
October 16, 2021
See my review on The House at Pooh Corner. Same goes for this one!
January 20, 2022
Wow that was so good! What a performance by Winnie the Pooh, simply amazing. I wish I could give it 6 stars
October 26, 2023
Delightful!! How have I managed to never complete this book until now?
January 30, 2024
A cute, feel-good audiobook and a classic! I picked this up out of nostalgia and was not disappointed.
January 31, 2022
It's so short, but I love this little collection of Pooh Stories. They aren't the most complex or deep plots, but the characters are great, and you can tell that these were definitely bed time stories at their core.
September 1, 2022
Heartwarming stories in a lovely world
The way the narrator chose to snort in between every word when piglet spoke was annoying though
The way the narrator chose to snort in between every word when piglet spoke was annoying though
October 4, 2025
I absolutely loved this. So funny and sweet.
December 21, 2024
Winnie-the-Pooh is a book of short stories by A. A. Milne, which feature the titular character, Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends. This review is referring primarily to the audiobook version, narrated by Peter Dennis. The original version of the book was released in 1926, and this audiobook version was released in 2003. It is an unabridged version. Each chapter is a story about the events that happen in the woods where the characters live; some stories are connected.
My first thought about the book is that I like it. I don’t recall ever reading the book when I was a kid, though I probably did. I definitely remember all the stories from seeing them on cartoon versions. I think there are some fun little bits to the book. There are a lot of innocent moments of the characters. Being that they’re all written to be childlike, they often make some mistakes in how to pronounce or spell things. Looking at it as an adult, I think it’s a bit amusing to read it and think, “yeah, I understand how they got that wrong…” And it’s amusing to me, in the sense that it leads them to coming up with unpredictable little conversations, or going on little adventures; due to the way they don’t quite understand the way the world works.
I love the personalities of so many of the characters. I also appreciate that they each have little quirks and bits of behaviour that make them feel so full of life and spirit. Like the way Winnie-the-Pooh regularly keeps on coming up with little songs, and singing them proudly. Or the way a character like Eeyore always feels down on his luck, though he feels like such a real character, because I know people who have a similar personality. Or a character like Piglet, who has a little bit of a fear of things, but still keeps trying to put himself out into the world, and trying to be friends with people.
I think the narrator is pretty good. He can provide a wide range of voices, and some of them are very enjoyable for me. Though, I have to admit that I don’t really like the Winnie-the-Pooh voice he does. There are some voices he does that feel grating to me. But I feel like he has done a pretty reasonable job for the majority of the book.
Overall, it’s a pretty fun book. Even reading it now as an adult, it has a lot of pleasant moments. Honestly, while it’s not a perfect book, I feel like it’s easy to see why the book has stood the test of time. It feels like the characters are so much fun. Their little adventures put a smile on my face and I admire their childlike innocence. I think the author captured that aspect of their characters very well.
My first thought about the book is that I like it. I don’t recall ever reading the book when I was a kid, though I probably did. I definitely remember all the stories from seeing them on cartoon versions. I think there are some fun little bits to the book. There are a lot of innocent moments of the characters. Being that they’re all written to be childlike, they often make some mistakes in how to pronounce or spell things. Looking at it as an adult, I think it’s a bit amusing to read it and think, “yeah, I understand how they got that wrong…” And it’s amusing to me, in the sense that it leads them to coming up with unpredictable little conversations, or going on little adventures; due to the way they don’t quite understand the way the world works.
I love the personalities of so many of the characters. I also appreciate that they each have little quirks and bits of behaviour that make them feel so full of life and spirit. Like the way Winnie-the-Pooh regularly keeps on coming up with little songs, and singing them proudly. Or the way a character like Eeyore always feels down on his luck, though he feels like such a real character, because I know people who have a similar personality. Or a character like Piglet, who has a little bit of a fear of things, but still keeps trying to put himself out into the world, and trying to be friends with people.
I think the narrator is pretty good. He can provide a wide range of voices, and some of them are very enjoyable for me. Though, I have to admit that I don’t really like the Winnie-the-Pooh voice he does. There are some voices he does that feel grating to me. But I feel like he has done a pretty reasonable job for the majority of the book.
Overall, it’s a pretty fun book. Even reading it now as an adult, it has a lot of pleasant moments. Honestly, while it’s not a perfect book, I feel like it’s easy to see why the book has stood the test of time. It feels like the characters are so much fun. Their little adventures put a smile on my face and I admire their childlike innocence. I think the author captured that aspect of their characters very well.
June 26, 2020
Perfectly delightful. The voice narration is a lovely match to the throughly charming stories of a precocious bear and his friends in the 100 acre woods. I grew up with Winnie-The-Pooh perifinarila and Disney version storybooks so it was a surprise to not have Kanga and Roo introduced half way through they the stories contained in this volume 1 and to not See Tigger at all. There were familiar story’s and new ones to my ears but all were throughly charming.
I forgot how gentle these stories are, they are so old fashioned they are refreshing. A treat for readers of all ages. I regret not reading these gentle tales to my own boys when they were young enough to be charmed. Now I will have to wait until they are old enough to appreciate the gentle charms of these tales to introduce them. I will rectify this with the grandchildren.
I forgot how gentle these stories are, they are so old fashioned they are refreshing. A treat for readers of all ages. I regret not reading these gentle tales to my own boys when they were young enough to be charmed. Now I will have to wait until they are old enough to appreciate the gentle charms of these tales to introduce them. I will rectify this with the grandchildren.
October 6, 2023
It brings me so much joy to see how much the original stories held up. They were funny with really clever word play, they were inventive, and perhaps most exciting of all, they felt really kind. Of all of the children's classics I'm reading so far, it was perhaps best at not making me long solely for the other media in which I know the story. A special shout out to narrator Peter Dennis, who I learned was the actor who the Milne estate actually chose. His voices were memorable, unique enough from the Disney voices we've all grown to love, and imbued with so much heart that it made the entire experience a blast.
June 17, 2024
This was a cute collection of short stories by A.A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh and the other characters in the Hundred Acre Wood. It's obvious this is what Disney based at least three of the original cartoons on, and was very enjoyable to hear them in their original form. Dennis does a great job narrating the collection, although the musical interludes seemed a bit long and unnecessary at times. Overall, a very enjoyable listen.
June 11, 2024
Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
Nostalgia anyone?
As fas as I know this is the first Winnie the Pooh book, am I right?
Winnie the Pooh has to be the most loving story there is out there. It is just lovely, caring.. just such a beautiful read.
In this book we see everyone in his world, all his friends and all his most famous adventures. Just perfect.
Nostalgia anyone?
As fas as I know this is the first Winnie the Pooh book, am I right?
Winnie the Pooh has to be the most loving story there is out there. It is just lovely, caring.. just such a beautiful read.
In this book we see everyone in his world, all his friends and all his most famous adventures. Just perfect.
September 2, 2024
Delightful! I loved that the audiobook has nature sounds in the background that go with the stories and bring the forest to life...the sounds of a flowing stream, and birdsong, and rain. The stories themselves are whimsical and fun, and even at the age of 39 I am not ashamed to say they made me chuckle and brought a smile to my face.
May 20, 2021
I have many times read the delightful Winnie the Pooh stories out loud to my children. It is one of my favorite books to read aloud, as it is so funny and clever. But listening to the audio recording made it even more lovable; sometimes we laughed to the point of tears.
May 1, 2022
Absolutely loved this. The allegories and surprisingly technical writing made me smile and think sweetly of life. Even little poems and songs were written in. Minus points for the weird oinks the audio book narrator did for piglet, though.
October 10, 2022
This was a favorite of mine as a child, but I found some of the stories objectionable as an adult like the kidnapping (roo napping) to make Kanga leave the community.
The piglet snorting was annoying.
The piglet snorting was annoying.
July 28, 2023
We listened to the audio version and it was so charming and sweet. Everyone “Pooh” fan should give this one a listen, even if it’s a repeat read! We’re moving on to more in the collection, next! My kids loved it.
October 6, 2023
So-so. In my opinion, not as successful
as it is presented. Maybe it's the simplicity
and innocence in it and maybe I'm not at
the right age to read this book. For some
reason, I felt that it annoyed me more than
it pleased me.
as it is presented. Maybe it's the simplicity
and innocence in it and maybe I'm not at
the right age to read this book. For some
reason, I felt that it annoyed me more than
it pleased me.
December 6, 2023
I read these stories to my kids when they were young and one as a young adult, which brought back such sweet memories. Listening to them being read to me was beautiful. I miss my children and those years of long ago, but memories like these will always remain a treasure. 💖
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April 26, 2020
How can you not love Winnie-the-Pooh? Listening to this book again reminded me of my childhood. I was smiling the whole way through. It truly made me incredibly happy.
May 5, 2020
I'll cry if I write a review 💔
June 11, 2020
A really nice book to fall asleep too. Short stories so can quickly find the right place in the morning and good natured stories. Piglet did have a strange jarring snort though.
September 9, 2020
Great story to read especially to kids.
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