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The Best Bear in all the World

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The Best Bear in all the World

by Paul Bright, Brian Sibley, Jeanne Willis, and Kate Saunders (Egmont, 2016); audiobook read by Martin Jarvis (Bolinda, 2016)

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The Estate of A. A. Milne deserves praise for its restraint in authorising Winnie-the-Pooh sequels. This 90th anniversary penning of new stories (one for each season) sees four Pooh aficionados craft adventures in the spirit of Milne and illustrator E. H. Shepard.

 

 

Winnie-the-Pooh

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Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne (Methuen, 1926)

audiobook read by Bernard Cribbins (Bolinda, 2015)

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Winnie-the-Pooh has never lost its appeal as a collection of gentle, safe children’s tales featuring loveable anthropomorphised animals with foibles. Bernard Cribbins upholds the tradition of making Piglet sound unspeakably annoying, but redeems himself by giving us Eeyore à la Geoff Boycott.