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When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six

By: A. A. Milne
Narrated by: Peter Dennis
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Blackstone Audio presents, from the unabridged collection "A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics," the forty-four poems from When We Were Very Young and the thirty-five poems of Now We Are Six, performed by Peter Dennis. This is the only reading of these delightful verses authorized by A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin.

The first of A.A. Milne's four world-famous books for children, When We Were Very Young introduced Christopher Robin to innumerable friends and has probably been read more widely than any other book of verse for children published in our time. Now We Are Six followed, becoming a modern classic in its own right.

For sheer delightfulness, the children's rhymes of A.A. Milne are in a class by themselves with their charm, humor, understanding, and irresistible rhythms.

(P)2004 Bother! Los Angeles Production. Music © 2004 by Don Davis Animals Animals & Nature Classics Fiction Growing Up Literature & Fiction Friendship Witty Feel-Good Young Kids
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Critic reviews

“Peter Dennis has made himself Pooh’s Ambassador Extraordinary and no bear has ever had a more devoted friend. So if you want to meet the real Pooh, the bear I knew, the bear my father wrote about, listen to Peter. You will not be disappointed.”

(Christopher Robin Milne)

“Peter Dennis brings to these remarkable readings a quality that goes beyond professionalism into an area we can’t even begin to define.”

(Los Angeles Times)

“Congratulations on your outstanding contribution to children and their families.”

(Diana Huss Green, editor-in-chief, Parents’ Choice Foundation)

“Read these poems aloud and pass along (or start) a family tradition.”

(Amazon.com, editorial review)
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Please split into separate chapters for each poem! I had to use the bookmark feature to create my own… the narrator has a lovely intonation, a little hurried on occasion - perhaps just excited to see royalty? ;) Thanks Peter for these incantations of Christopher’s childhood!

Lovely read but no “chapters”

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Stories from my childhood, so nostalgic. Bringing back memories of first hearing then. Very enjoyable.

Childhood relived

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The delivery of these exquisite poems by AA Milne is such a joy. I love reading them, the use of the English language is so clever, but to have them read to me in such a delightful way is just as I’ve said, pure joy.

Pure joy

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Yes the narrator is fine.

But be aware if you wanted this to aid bedtime with younger children. The narrator does their job fully with shouting the marketplace stall owners for example.

There is no chapters! Lots of stories
And the then kids audible add on… at end.


And then when you try to add notes.., the clarinet between each one changes the tune so you can’t skip the sound either.

It’s unabridged, but I’m not in awe and hence why I wrote the review to hopefully assist others with the warnings of what not to expect.

Mixed

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absolutely rubbish narrative hard to get into and doesn't sound like the characters don't really like these mainly due to the narrative

like winnie the pooh but not these

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