A Bookful of Happiness (The Complete Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne)

Member Name: MI9to5

Product:	The Complete Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
Date:	05/09/08 (130 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fantastic artwork

Disadvantages: NONE

The complete Winnie the Pooh collection of stories is for me simply the best story collection that money can buy.

I have loved this book ever since it was given to me as a Christmas present by my grandparent when I was 5 years old and since that date I have read the entire collection many times, as has my younger brother.

This fantastic collection gathers together all of the Winnie the Pooh stories written by A. A. Milne as well as two collections of his poems and presents them in a brilliant way. The book itself is broken down into four sections, two of them full of stories, two of them full of poems. Each section then has its own contents page for easy reference. Each story section contains 10 stories giving a grand total of 20 stories and 79 poems.

Although the poems are brilliant with some of them being humorous and some more serious, although always appropriate for children, it is for me the stories that make this book so brilliant.

Each story is follows the adventures of Winnie the Pooh from the first one, which explains who is to to the one in which Eeyore has a birthday, to the one where we meet Kanga and Roo and finally to the last story wher Christopher Robin promises always to play with his Pooh Bear.

The stories themselves are written beautifully in a way to enchant and encapture a child's imagination. At first they may however seem a little too complicated but as you read along with your child and their reading ability grows you will soon find them happily reading through them themsleves. Whilst they cannot read alone however each story is accompanied by some superb illustrations to allow your child to follow the stories with ease. It is these delicate pictures that really make the book seem so special.

As you can probably tell I cannot praise this book anymore, as it truly is something I have treasured for a long time and will continue to do so in the future. In my opinion a collection of stories such as this makes the most wonderful present for a child, as it is something that can grow with them and something that can take a bit of pride in owning.

The collection isn't however the cheapest on the market and wil cost you somehwere in the region of £25 depending on if you shop around or not. The hours of enjoyment that the child will recieve though makes the price in my mimd well justified and I would certainly recommend this book to everyone and anyone, a sit is simply a joy to own.

Summary: A book that grows with the reader