Winnie-the-Pooh and Me: A Winnie-the-Pooh adventure in rhyme, featuring A.A Milne's and E.H Shepard's beloved characters

This book is lovely. Winnie the Pooh stories are classic and always fun to read and this book is no different. Familiar characters, another fun adventure and beautiful pictures.

Taking the language, pattern and meaning from Milne's earlier 'When We Are Six' poem, Willis crafts a nostalgic and sweet new conversation poem between Christopher Robin and Pooh, as they go about their day in the 100 Aker Wood (sic), sounding both nonsensical and philosophical in equal measure, chatting about being one or two, and really talking about their friendship and love for each other.Burgess brings us illustrations very close to Shepherd's, recognisable if you've got the original-illustrated versions, not at all Disney-like, and the Wood seems very familiar, their friends are all present, even if in cloud form.And even if little ones don't follow Pooh closely (for let's face it - does he even follow his own trails of thought?), it's clear it's all about he and his boy adoring each other and never wanting to be apart. Every small child with a favourite toy will understand that.Very enjoyable to read aloud. For ages 3 and above.With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample reading copy.

If this isn’t outright plagiarism or cultural misappropriation, I’ll eat my honey pot.

I can't say I've read many winnie the pooh stories so I don't know whether this new story matches the originals in term of writing style or storytelling, but I did find this to be a lovely read.I found the special bond between Christopher Robin and Pooh bear to be such a nice one.The illustrations are really lovely to look at as well so I think lots of readers are really going to love this book.