Winnie the Pooh (Dramatised)

By: A. A. Milne

Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Jane Horrocks, Geoffrey Palmer, Judi Dench, Finty Williams, Robert Daws, Michael Williams

Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Packed full of fun and adventure with Winnie-the-Pooh and all his friends in the Hundred Acre Forest. This is a wonderful dramatisation of Winnie-the-Pooh by David Benedictus with music composed, directed and played by John Gould. With a cast of carefully-chosen actors, this adaptation conveys all the magic of Milne's classic stories.

The cast includes the following stars:

Pooh - Stephen Fry

Piglet - Jane Horrocks

Eeyore - Geoffrey Palmer

Kanga - Judi Dench

Roo - Finty Williams

Rabbit - Robert Daws

Owl - Michael Williams

Christopher Robin - Steven Webb

©1997 The Trustees of the Pooh Properties (P)1997 Hodder Children's Books

Piglet's voice is impossible to forget.

The presentation of this book is done so very well. The only voice I was not sure that fit was Poohs. See what you think!

Quite funny - well done

So well done. So funny. The characters really come into their own with these performances. I love the Disney version of Pooh but this is so lovely and the humor surprised me! Weve listened several times and every time are sad it's over.

Charming

Wonderfully dramatized. A pleasure for both kids and parents to listen. When my kids were little, we’d turn this on in the car when they’d get rambunctious and everyone would immediately relax. I must admit that even now, though my kids are too grown for Winnie the Pooh, I still like to listen to it myself sometimes.

Great narrator and great companion to interchange withthe book

I was afraid to get this book because I didn’t know how the rest of the book was going to be narrated, but my kids (5,7) love it, they silently listen to the stories cracking up with all the sweet silliness happening in the book!

So cute

All characters voices matches. It was a great performance. I want thank for all narrators!

just magical

the way Winnie The Pooh is brought to life by the amazing cast makes me fall in love with the story all over again

wonderful

The various readers are excellent. The whole family thoroughly enjoyed. Judi Dench is a pleasure and Geoffrey Palmer as Eeyore is PERFECT.

The only audiobook my son will listen to

My son is picky when it comes to reading stories or listening to audiobooks. Winnie the Pooh is one that I never have to fight him on. He loves to hear it when he goes to bed.

A Great Dramatization with a Perfect Piglet

This is an excellent dramatization of A. A. Milne's delightful classic book about Pooh, the bear of little brain, and his quirky friends. The different voice actors are perfect, with standouts being Judi Dench as one of the two narrators, Jane Horrocks as the husky, high-voiced Piglet, and Geoffrey Palmer as the appealingly gloomy Eeyore. Stephen Fry does a sturdy Pooh, though at times I had the uncanny impression of Fry himself standing before me rather than Pooh bear. Two narrators, one male, one female, narrate the chapters, switching back and forth repeatedly and rapidly, and after about the first chapter, I found myself enjoying the switches, as though I were being read to by two ideally witty and warm parents or grand-parents at the same time. The piano music that begins or closes chapters and accompanies Pooh's "hums" is pleasant and appropriate. The sound effects help the listener to imagine the scenes without distracting him/her from the savory text. And the dramatization doesn't abridge much; from what I could tell (by comparing the first chapter in the book with the first one in the audiobook), the dramatizers include pretty much all of Milne's words and chapters except for occasional dialogue tags that are conveyed well enough by the different voice actors.

It was very entertaining to listen to this book; I often found myself smiling and chuckling at the foolish and charming exploits of Pooh and company and wishing the book would not end.

By the way, I tried the samples of Peter Dennis reading the unabridged Pooh books and was completely turned off by the bizarre grunting-farting noise that punctuates all of Piglet's utterances. Jane Horrocks is much much MUCH more appealingly Piglet-y.

Classic

My boys love this book! We have listened to it over 100 times I'm sure à