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Winnie-The-Pooh & When We Were Very Young with Book

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Initially we purchased the"Winnie-The-Pooh and When we were very Young " cassettes for the children to listen to on long car journeys; I vaguely remembered the stories from my own childhood in England and it was a delight to find that the extremely talented Peter Dennis has a wonderful English voice (call me biased but Winnie-The-Pooh is a very British bear!). Peter Dennis totally captures the characters and nuances of A.A. Milne's delightful creatures; we may have bought the tapes for the children but the adults share equal pleasure when listening to them. To anyone who wants to journey back to a time of simple pleasures and pure enchantment I thoroughly recommend "Winnie-The-Pooh and When We Were Very Young" performed by Peter Dennis.

BRAVO! Rush out and buy all Mr. Dennis' recordings

Mr. Dennis has a exemplary way of charming young and old alike with his renderings of the works of A.A. Milne. No wonder the U.S. Government considers him a national treasure. Anyone will treasure owning his entire collection.

Peter Dennis is extraordinary as the interpreter of these classics. I've seen him perform as well as listen to all of his tapes and I am charmed more each time! He is warm, subtle, whimsical, graceful, and funny all at the same time. 5 stars!

Perhaps, at one time or another, each of us has read Winnie the Pooh aloud. We may even believe we did it rather well, but the experience you will have with Peter Dennis reading Winnie the Pooh is simply stunning; quite more than you expect.

The CDs [there are two sets of two] are accompanied by booklets which introduce you to all the major characters who had a part in the creation of these classics--A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin Milne, E.H. Shepard [the illustrator], Peter Dennis [the actor] and the inimitable Pooh.

But of course it is the stories of Pooh and his friends, and the poems of A.A. Milne, which are the substance being reviewed, and the voice and magical depth which Peter Dennis gives to each of the characters which I commend. I cannot imagine any two qualities meeting more harmoniously--Pooh's words and Dennis' voice--nor with greater power to sweep you off to the 100 AKER WOOD and to the world of Pooh.

For each character Dennis has devised a "voice" and other sound characteristics which identify the players and help to move the stories/poems along. These are certainly the essence of the magic; you cannot hear these sounds and words and be the same.

Winnie the Pooh has been around since the Christmas season of 1925. Some years ago Disney acquired the rights to all the film and television presentations of Pooh, so the compact disc is our only access to what is surely the most splendid merger of word and voice in all these many years. It is not only that the words are those of A.A. Milne and are the Finest of all Words, nor that the voice is a British voice, which is much the Best Way of sounding, but that the combination is like a kind of enchanted music, which Accounts for a Good Deal. Indeed, It Explains Everything!