Winnie-The-Pooh: The House at Pooh Corner

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Summary: I will still be listening to this dramatization when I am 99
Review: ...I have already been brainwashed by Disney Pooh Cartoons long before I bought Stephen Fry's Pooh, still I fell in love with it immediately. If Disney's Pooh & Friends have fluff, then A.A. Milne's have brains and Stephen Fry's dramatization gave them lives. It's just like listening to a Pooh movie. All of the actors in this dramatization devoted themselves to their roles. The music is so beautiful that it comes to me naturally whenever I feel like humming it to myself (so does Pooh, I think). Most of all, I DO NOT think Jane Horroks' Piglet is "suffocatingly cutesy", or "when Jane Horrocks's Piglet appears, even the most tolerant adult listener will want to drag fingernails across a blackboard to drown her out," as the Editorial Reviews said. To me (I am an adult listener), Jane Horroks' Piglet is one of the chief attractions of this Pooh Giftpack. Just take a look at Amazon.com Sales Rank. "Well, there you are, that proves it," said Piglet.

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Summary: The finest Pooh audiotapes ever recorded!
Review: I learned to read by listening (again and again and again and again) to a pair of well-loved and well-worn LPs of the Pooh stories read by Maurice Evans. I always considered them the finest Pooh audiobooks ever recorded. Up until now! Now there's this wonderful series of fully-dramatized adventures of Pooh featuring a brilliant cast of wonderful British actors: Stephen Fry ("Jeeves and Wooster") as Pooh, Geoffrey Palmer ("The Madness of King George") as Eeyore, Judy Dench ("Shakespeare in Love") as Kanga...and best of all, the *incomparable* Jane Horrocks ("Little Voice" and Bubble from "AbFab") as a squeaky, alarmed, and altogether adorable Piglet. You don't have to be a kid to appreciate these fine recordings (and there are plenty of adult Pooh fans out there who will *love* these versions). Accept no substitutes: this is simply the finest Pooh audio series yet created, beating by a *far* distance the Alan Bennett and (ugh!) Charles Kuralt versions.

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Summary: Perfect Pooh--wish I could give it 10 stars!
Review: I really cannot imagine how anyone could ever dramatize Pooh any better. Do not believe any negative reviews out there--this is the greatest. I have it because my sister and her kids love it and gave it to us. They have bought a second copy in case anything happens to the first as it is the FAVORITE on all car rides or even around the house.

You will love this audiobook as much as your kids do(unlike alot of kids stuff out there!) as it perfectly captures the gentle, playful, whimsical, loving tone of these stories. It also captures the funny English-isms which preschoolers LOVE (kids really get a kick out of wordplay and are fascinated by new words at this age)Put it on at 5:00 pm or on a long car ride when the kids are going banannas and you won't be disappointed.

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Summary: best Pooh recording out there
Review: Terrific casting - top-drawer firepower! - on all voices except Tigger, who alas is over the top and irritating, but one ignores it in favor of the wonderful rest. Clever use of the actors as both narrators and characters. Stephen Fry as Pooh is perfect and Geoffrey Palmer as Eeyore is revelatory - after nearly 50 years, I finally "get" Eeyore!

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Summary: IGNORE THE AUDIOFILE REVIEW!
Review: These are WONDERFUL tapes, as is the first (Pooh Goes Visiting), especially for anyone who loves the real Pooh and is disgusted by the Disney version (talk about repellently cutesy!). Now, Tigger's voice here--that does hit the wrong note. But we (post-grad educated) grownups and our four (2 to 8 year old) children think Piglet's and Eeyore's voices are priceless, and Owl's and Rabbit's and Christopher Robin's and others' are just right,too. Over the last few years these tapes have been the most requested of the car-ride playlist, for which we parents are grateful because they're as much fun for us as for the kids. By far the best Pooh tapes I've heard.

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Summary: The most wonderful Pooh ensemble performance!
Review: These four tapes will find a permanent place in your collection. They represent an amazing dramatization of the two Pooh books (including all the stories in their original order) by this talented group of British performers. My favorite is probably Piglet -- Jane Horrocks's amazing Piglet is really understated. Every endearing "Oo-ooh-oh" makes me laugh and want to listen again. I also adore the quiet, loving rendition of Pooh by Stephen Fry and the wonderful curmudgeonly Eeyore of Geoffrey Palmer. But I love everybody involved here (except Tigger in his entrance, which is a little strong) and am delighted to have discovered them. If for some reason you only want one or two of these tapes, the same recordings are available on four separate tapes, starting with "Pooh Goes Visiting." If you are a fan of Pooh, by all means try these wonderful tapes!