Related to a project at work … do you prefer the original Shepard drawings of Pooh characters or the Disney versions?
Original definitely.
Shepard. No contest.
Original
Loathe Disney, but will admit I have never seen the whole movie. I had a magical fourth grade teacher who read it to us. It’s not a baby book the way it’s marketed now. (She also read us Silent Spring.)
Original. I loathe the Disney version. We are Pooh purists at our house!
The originals are tons nicer than the “Disnified.”
Hands down original.
Not a purist, we love them both in my house. And even when reading the original, Pooh has Sterling Holloway’s voice.
Original.
I prefer the Shephard drawings and love Milne’s books. That being said, there is nothing like getting a hug from Pooh when I’m in Disney World!
I did my nursery in Classic Pooh back in 1998 but I like Disney too!
Original, but I find the Disney versions pretty true to the spirit of the books.
I am a particular fan of Roo, who despite being a fictional talking kangaroo joey is such a perfectly rendered four-year-old:
[Roo, still bubbling proudly, “Look at me swimming,” drifted up against it, and climbed out. “Did you see me swimming?” squeaked Roo excitedly, while Kanga scolded him and rubbed him down. “Pooh, did you see me swimming? That’s called swimming, what I was doing. Rabbit, did you see what I was doing? Swimming. Hallo, Piglet! I say, Piglet! What do you think I was doing! Swimming! Christopher Robin, did you see me–”]
Oh, bother! (It seemed like the perfect thing to say on this thread). I prefer Shepard’s drawings, but I think the Disney versions are okay.
Original. And all the other AAMilne poetry books of the same genre
Halfway down is a stair where I sit
There isn’t any other stair
Quite like it.
It isn’t at the bottom
And it isn’t at the top
Halfway down is the stair
where I stop
(From memory, so I may be misquoting)
My children loved hearing them over and over.
James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother
Though he was only three.
James James
Said to his Mother,
“Mother,” he said, said he;
“You must never go down to the end of the town, if
you don’t go down with me.”
Original because I like the color palette.
I was trying to remember that one!
Anyone ever read The Tao of Pooh?
“While Eoyore frets, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.”
I like the original but I really liked that the Disney Pooh would keep my two year old interested for ten minutes while I started dinner or paid some bills.