So yesterday I was dusting my bookcase when I came across a little book that just caught my eye, it was the one and only 'Winnie-The-Pooh' by A.A.Milne! Of course there was no question about whether I took it off of the book case to have a look - of course I did!
(And literally a minute ago when writing the previous section I look over at my bookcase to the place where I removed the Winnie-The-Pooh book from I see... another one.)
Anyway, I was lying in bed last night and nothing interesting was on TV for about another half an hour and so I asked my sister if I could read the first story of 'Winnie-The-Pooh' to her (there are 10 stories in the book) and she said yes :) so I started off reading out loud to Zoe and by the time I was nearing the bottom of the 2nd page I removed my top retainer, realising I had a little bit of a lisp which was INCREDIBLY annoying!
I continued reading, doing my best to do the voices but probably failing to do them well, but then my sister decided that hearing me read made her want to read her book, 'Skulduggery Pleasant', so she went and got her book from her bedroom. I was a little bit disappointed as I now had to read in my head and that isn't as fun, especially when it comes to all the voices.
For all of you who like and remember Winnie-The-Pooh stories well then I was reading the one where Pooh tried to get the honey from the tree by pretending to be a rain cloud attached to a balloon. I was a little bit confused at one point when Pooh asked Christopher Robin if he had a balloon and he did but Christopher Robin went to the tree with Pooh and in the book it says:
'Well you both went out with the blue balloon and you took your gun with you, just in case, as you always did.'
I was thinking, 'what the hell, did I read that right?' so I read it again... and sure enough it did say that Christopher Robin had a gun with him. What. The. Hell. What does a little kid in a CHILDREN'S' book need with a gun! A bit odd I know but I kept reading... he used it to pop the balloon. But still, surely he they could have used something other than a gun, a slingshot perhaps. Something less violent than a gun (even though he didn't use it in a violent way.
(I do realise that in the illustration it is a gun with a piece of sting attached to it, but still how could it have shot the balloon in the air with such a short piece of string? I know, as my friend said - 'but it is fictional.' Which is very true but it did made me stop and have to read again. Made me laugh a little too at the thought of a kid walking out of a house with a gun, before we know it is a cork one.)
(I do realise that in the illustration it is a gun with a piece of sting attached to it, but still how could it have shot the balloon in the air with such a short piece of string? I know, as my friend said - 'but it is fictional.' Which is very true but it did made me stop and have to read again. Made me laugh a little too at the thought of a kid walking out of a house with a gun, before we know it is a cork one.)
This morning, I read 2 more of the stories and they are just so adorable and so I am definitely going to read more because they are only very short and so don't take very long at all to read! And I also fully intend to read the stories in the second book too!
**While thinking of a topic for a blog I had looked over at the books and it reminded me about nostalgia so really it is inspired by my friend, Maddy who vlogs on youtube because her last one was about nostalgia! http://www.youtube.com/user/thevoiceofmanyfaces Go watch her, NOW - please (I have manners, you see)**
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