One reason why I really like WINNIE THE POOH is because A.A.Milne writes from a child’s viewpoint, which makes it ten times funnier! I often find myself laughing out loud at a dialogue when my little sister -who is still learning to read- catches me and asks, “What’s so funny? Read to me!!!” So then I read the part to her and she laughs too! One of my favorite characters is an owl, named Wol, he likes explaining complicated things, in a way ones “with very little brain” might not understand. =)
This is a part which I like a lot, it is when Pooh and Piglet visit Wol’s house and then it falls down.
“Because,” said Owl, “we can’t go out by what used to be the front door. Something’s fallen on it.”
“But how else can you go out?” asked Piglet anxiously.
“That is the problem, Piglet, to which I am asking Pooh to give his mind.”
Pooh sat on the floor which had once been a wall, and gazed up at the ceiling which had once been another wall, with a front door in it which had once been a front door, and tried to give his mind to it.
“Could you fly up to the letter-box with Piglet on your back?” he asked.
“No,” said Piglet quickly. “He couldn’t.”
Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before, and had been waiting ever since for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing which you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
Another interesting thing about A.A.Milne is that he wrote about the real toys (Pooh, Piglet, Wol, Rabbit, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, and Eeyore.) of his son Christopher Robin, and their little adventures together. If you ever happen to read WINNIE THE POOH, I’m sure that you will be impressed and endeared to the book because of it’s charm and unique vantage point combined with A.A.Milne’s talented writing.
