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The House at Pooh Corner & Now We Are Six [With 24 Page Booklet]

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CLASSIC POOH

The real Winnie-the-Pooh has finally stood up. Kids inundated with movies and merchandise featuring Disney's version of the Bear of Little Brain deserve to be introduced to the real thing: English actor Peter Dennis' telling of A. A. Milne's tales.

Dennis, who lives in Southern California, is the only person granted permission by the Pooh Trustees to perform Milne's stories and poems in the theater, and his one-man show Bother! has won many awards. He's now released a Classic Audio CD Collection of his unabridged, award-winning recordings of Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, Now We Are Six and When We Were Very Young. KAREN LINDELL, PARENTING MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1998

This is a wonderful recording of the Pooh tales...Mr. Dennis makes the tales come alive. These are familiar friends and the rendering of this collection is excellent. Mr. Dennis provides all the voices and the stories are read as Mr. Milne wrote them...as stories, for children, to be read aloud.

Peter Dennis does not so much perform the writings of A. A. Milne, as he is possessed by each and every inhabitant of the Hundred Acre Woods. Like a spiritual medium, Mr. Dennis seems to directly channel Pooh and Piglet, Owl and Eeyore, Tigger and Christopher Robin. To hear him conduct his magic on tape, one presupposes that he must have recorded each voice in successive takes, but to see him perform, is to watch a man's entire demeanor change as quickly as the sunshine can burst out from behind a cloud, and to realize, contentedly, that beautifully written words can be lifted straight off the page and can dance before your very eyes, in the hands of a gifted performer.