The World of Pooh: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner

Title: The World of Pooh: The Complete Winnie-the-Pooh and the House at Pooh Corner

Author: A. A. Milne

Genre: Fantasy

Summary: One day, Pooh was bored, so in the snow, he decided to go to Piglet’s house to see what he was doing. To his surprise, Piglet wasn’t home. Just to be sure, Pooh knocked very loudly, but Piglet didn’t answer. While waiting, Pooh jumped up and down to keep warm and he hummed “Hummed Hopefully to Others.” Pooh hurried back to his house and said he was going to visit Eeyore. When he got back home, Piglet was sitting in his arm chair. Pooh was confused because he thought Piglet was out, but Piglet said Pooh was the one who was out. They were going to find Eeyore and sing to him. Piglet was anxious to sing to Eeyore and thought that maybe they could practice that day and sing to Eeyore another day. Pooh was set on singing that day, so he sang the song for Piglet one more time. While they got close to Eeyore’s Gloomy Place, Pooh began to think about Eeyore and how he had no place to live. Everyone else had a place to live, but Eeyore didn’t and Pooh felt bad. Pooh had an idea! He said they should build Eeyore a house. Christopher Robin had just gotten off his boat because he had been indoors all day traveling back and forth from Africa. He went to Eeyore to see how he was doing, but Eeyore wasn’t happy because of the cold, snowy weather. Eeyore explained to Christopher Robin that he had built himself a house that morning, but it wasn’t there now. Christopher Robin said that they would go and look for it. Suddenly, Eeyore heard something. It was Pooh singing and Piglet too. They were singing about finishing a beautiful house! They showed Eeyore his new house that they had built for him. Eeyore was so happy. That night, Winnie the Pooh woke up suddenly to a noise. He thought that it was Eeyore, Piglet or Christopher Robin, but it wasn’t any of them. Pooh got up and say hello to a strange animal. The animal was Tigger. Tigger said Christopher Robin knew about him. Pooh went back to sleep and told Tigger he would see him in the morning, and Tigger was the first thing he saw. Tigger said there were other animals like him and he didn’t know about them. Tigger said that Pooh’s table cloth tried to bite him, but Pooh insisted that it didn’t. He put a jar of honey on the table, and Tigger went right into it. After they ate honey, which Tigger said he didn’t like, they went to visit Piglet. Pooh warned Tigger that Piglet was small and didn’t like jumping and bouncing around. Pooh introduced them. The three of them went to see Eeyore. They walked and walked and Pooh introduced Tigger to Eeyore. Tigger ate some breakfast at Eeyore’s house, and Pooh made a poem about how bouncy Tigger was to Piglet. Pooh went to Christopher Robin to ask what Tigger’s eat, because Tigger told Pooh he likes everything and everything that Pooh has tried to give him, he doesn’t like. So far Tigger said he liked everything except honey, hay corns and thistles. Next, they went to Kanga’s house. Kanga’s son, Roo, needed to take medicine to make him stronger, but suddenly, it was gone. Tigger took it for him! Kanga was not happy. Tigger lived at Kanga’s house after this, and had Extract of Malt for breakfast, dinner and tea. The next day, Pooh was sitting in his house counting his jars of honey, when there was a knock at the door. It was Rabbit, and Pooh lost count. Rabbit came over to ask Pooh if he had seen Small, but Pooh wasn’t even sure who Small was. Small was Rabbit’s friend-and-relation. Pooh told Rabbit that he hadn’t seen anyone that day, but he asked Rabbit if Small was lost. Rabbit said that nobody had seen him for a few days, so he guessed so. Rabbit promised Christopher Robin that he would organize a search for Small, so he and Pooh went off. Rabbit organized the search. He sent Pooh to look by the Six Pine Trees first and then work his way towards Owl’s House. In two hours, the two of them would meet. As Pooh was searching for Piglet to see exactly who Small was, he found himself flying like an owl. Soon enough, he fell down, and heard a small voice asking for help. It was Piglet. Pooh had fallen on top of him. They thought they had fallen into a trap and they didn’t know what to do. They found out that Small’s real name was Very Small Beetle, but he was called Small for short. Suddenly, they heard a voice. It was Christopher Robin, but Piglet and Pooh thought that it was something else. When they got out of the ditch, there was something that Piglet noticed that was crawling on Pooh’s back. Piglet said it was very small. They found small! Christopher Robin helped them out of the pit and two days later, Rabbit met Eeyore in the forest. Eeyore said he was looking for Small, but Rabbit told him that Small was found two days prior. One day, Pooh was thinking and he thought to go see Eeyore because he hadn’t seen him since the day before. On his way, he thought that he hadn’t seen Owl since the day before yesterday, so he stopped through the Hundred Acre Wood on the way to see if Owl was home. As Pooh was on his way, he thought of all of his other friends as well, and sang more of his song. He sat on the stone and went across the pond, but after singing, he got up and walked back across the stream to set off for Rabbit’s house. He thought about what he would do if Rabbit wasn’t home, so half an hour later; he set off for Piglet’s house. Piglet was busy digging a small hole in the group, but Pooh went over anyways. Pooh said that if he planted a honeycomb outside of his house, then it will grow into a beehive. That morning, Kanga was feeling motherly, so she went out and took a walk with Tigger, talking about all the things that Tigger’s can do. They can fly, they can jump, and they can swim and climb trees. Tigger and Roo climbed a tree, and the branch they had been on broke and Tigger just caught hold of the branch above him. When Pooh and Piglet were walking, they saw an animal in the tree and Piglet held onto Pooh. It was Tigger and Roo. They were stuck high in the trees because Tigger forgot that he could only climb up and not down, because his tail would get in the way! At last, Christopher Robin and Eeyore came strolling along. Pooh and Piglet asked what they could do. Christopher Robin suggested that they could use his tunic, so that Tigger and Roo would fall into it, but it would be soft and they wouldn’t get hurt. Roo jumped down, and flew up almost as high as he started off. He was alright. Next went Tigger. Since Tigger was a little heavier, he squashed Eeyore, but they all ended up alright. The next day was one of Rabbit’s very important days. He trotted off for a busy day towards Christopher Robin’s house, because he said that Christopher Robin liked and respected him the most. He went through the Hundred Acre Wood, feeling very important, and knocked at the door of Christopher Robin, who didn’t seem to be home. There was a note by the door saying that Christopher Robin was out and he would be back son. Rabbit wanted to tell everyone, so he went to Owl’s house to show him the note. Owl said that the day before, the same thing happened to him. It was a different note, but it had the same meaning. Next, Rabbit hurried off to find Pooh, when he heard a sound. It was another song by Pooh, called Noise. Pooh hadn’t seen Christopher Robin around that time any other day, so he didn’t know what he did in the mornings either. Pooh wasn’t of any help, so Rabbit found Piglet. Piglet had gotten up early that morning to pick himself a bunch of violets. Piglet thought to himself that nobody had picked violets for Eeyore, so he went back out, reminding himself to get violets for Eeyore over and over again. Piglet went to Eeyore, and he seemed down again. He had made an A, he said for education, out of sticks. Eeyore agreed to answer Rabbit’s question. Rabbit asked Eeyore what Christopher Robin does in the morning. Eeyore said he learns and he becomes education. Rabbit insisted on going back and telling everyone else. The next morning, the notice on Christopher Robin’s door said “Gone out. Back soon. C.R.” This is why all of the animals in the forest, except the Spotted and Herbaceous Backson know what Christopher Robin does in the mornings. Pooh was walking by the river one day, which wasn’t small and sparkly anymore, and he was holding a fir-cone. Suddenly, it fell out of his hand and into the river. He dropped the fir-cone on one side, and it had come back up on the other side. Pooh wanted to see if he could do it again, so he got another cone. This was the beginning of a game called Poohsticks. Pooh and his friends used to play with sticks, but now he would play with the fir-cones. While they were playing the game one day, they saw something grey in the water. They thought it was one of their fir-cones, but it wasn’t. It was Eeyore! He needed help getting out of the water, so his friends needed to devise a plan on how to help him out. They were finally able to get Eeyore out of the water, and when it was all said and done, Eeyore admitted that Tigger bounced him into the water. Tigger came strolling along and they asked him about it. He said he had a cough and that’s how Eeyore fell into the water. Along came Christopher Robin, and the animals tried to explain to him what had happened to Eeyore. Christopher Robin tried to ignore what had happened and he said they should all just play a game of Poohsticks, so they did, and Eeyore won his first time playing more than anyone else had. One day, Piglet and Rabbit were sitting outside of Pooh’s house, with Pooh as well, talking about how they need to “unbounce” Tigger. Pooh was busy listening to the summer air, and didn’t pay much attention to them, but he opened his eyes every so often to pretend like he was listening. Rabbit and Piglet decided it was time to teach Tigger a lesson. Pooh, Rabbit and Piglet went off and Tigger ran around them in circles. Soon, the path got narrow and the mist got thick, so Tigger kept disappearing. The next time Tigger bounced towards them, they disappeared. They hid from Tigger and they all ran off, following Rabbit. Tiger found his way back to Kanga’s house, and he explained what had happened. Christopher Robin said they had to go out and find everyone. Roo wanted to go, but they wouldn’t let him come alone. The others were obviously lost in the forest, but they hunted for food and found some dinner. Pooh had said there were twelve pots of honey left in his cupboard.  Suddenly, out of the mist, came Christopher Robin, who went home with Pooh and watched him for a long time. At last, Tigger came and saw Rabbit. He wasn’t bouncing nearly as much as he had been. Rabbit was finally glad to see him! Next, we are introduced to a place that is halfway between Pooh’s house and Piglet’s house. It is their Thoughtful Spot, so Pooh wrote a verse about it. One autumn morning, Pooh and Piglet were thinking and they decided to go see everybody, just because they wanted too. They got up, but the wind knocked Piglet back down again. First they went to Pooh’s house and then they went to Kanga’s. Next was Rabbits and by this time, Christopher Robin was home so they visited him. Hurrying around the corner and just in time, they had a Proper Tea with owl and next they saw Eeyore. Piglet was being pushed back farther and farther by the wind and he thought to Pooh about a tree falling down from all the wind, but Pooh insisted a tree wouldn’t fall, so Piglet was comforted. On their way back, they went to Owl’s house again, and Owl invited them inside. Pooh and Piglet were looking at a picture of Owl’s Uncle Robert, when suddenly, Pooh heard a loud noise and he began to fall on Piglet, who began to cry for help. The chairs began sliding down and the clock fell onto the mantelpiece, taking vases along with it. Owl was with them again. It was the wind, so again, Pooh wrote a verse about it. After this, the three of them made something with Owl’s letterbox, which was big enough for Piglet to fit into. They pulled Piglet up with a string. He saw that Owl’s tree had blown over and he said he’d be back in a half hour, so Owl began telling Pooh the story about his Uncle Robert, and Pooh closed his eyes. The next day, Pooh saw what Owl’s house had looked like from the wind the day before, and there was a note under his door. It said something about searching for a new house for Owl and something about Rabbit, who came to his door but was in a hurry. Next, they saw Eeyore, who wasn’t please. He complained that nobody kept him informed about anything and that he hadn’t talked to any of his friends in eleven days. They told him that he stayed in one corner and it was his fault. Pooh found Piglet and they walked back to Owl’s house together. Pooh hummed his entire song to Piglet, all seven verses of it, which nobody had ever done for Piglet before. He was so happy. When they got to Owl’s house, everyone was there…except for Eeyore. Christopher Robin was telling them what to do and they had already gotten a rope. When Pooh and Piglet arrived, they stopped working to take a break and hear Pooh’s song. Owl listened and decided to call his new home “The Wolery.” Christopher Robin then saw Eeyore, and they decided to talk. Eeyore had said that he built a new house for Piglet, and Christopher Robin asked what Piglet would do if his house were to blow down. Pooh answered for him and said that Piglet would live with him. The animals realized that Christopher Robin was going away and Rabbit wrote a notice to all of his friends telling them that he wanted to call a meeting at Pooh’s Corner. Everyone agreed and Eeyore was there, seeming as if he was saying goodbye too. The animals wrote a rissolution and they all signed it and brought it to Christopher Robin’s house. By the time he was done reading it and he looked up to say thank you, only Pooh was left, so they started to walk and talk. Pooh and Christopher Robin came to a place and they knew it was enchanted. Christopher Robin began to tell Pooh about kings and queens, and a place called Europe. Christopher Robin was moving to this place in the forest, and he asked Pooh to never forget about him and to promise that he would go visit, by himself. Pooh promised.

Characters: Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Christopher Robin, Owl, Kanga, Rabbit, Tigger, Roo, Small,

Plot: All of the animals stick together throughout the entire book and towards the end, they try to figure out what is going on with their friend, Christopher Robin.

Theme: sticking together, friendship, fantast

Setting: in the woods, Pooh’s house, Christopher Robin’s house, animal’s houses,

Opinion: I’ve read this book before, and it never gets old. It brings back childhood memories about loving Pooh bear and it really is just a cute book to read. I think it has great meaning behind it and it brings out a lot about friendships and relationships with other people. I would definitely recommend reading this book as a class or individually.