The Pooh Story Book

The Pooh Story Book

Author: A. A. Milne

Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard

Genre: Fantasy

Major Awards: None

Grade Level: 3-5

Summary: This book contains three stories found in other books written by A. A. Milne. They each show how the friends help each other, although things don't always end as planned. For example, in the first story, Pooh decides he is going to sing a song for Eeyore and gets Piglet to join in, but when they get to where Eeyore lived, Pooh decided he needed a house because everyone else had one. So they used the sticks around to build him one. In the meantime, Eeyore had gone to Christopher Robin's and was telling him about how his house had disappeared, so they went together to find that it was true. Once Pooh and Piglet realized the mistake, the house suddenly moving was blamed on the wind.

Evaluation: I would love to have this book in my classroom. I have always loved Winnie-The-Pooh, and introducing my students into the world of the Hundred Acre Wood would be a pleasure.

This book, although excellent to read aloud to younger students, is best suited for students in the third through fifth grades. Some of the vocabulary and sentence structures are not used in today's speech, so it would be more difficult for younger children to understand. My only concern, however, is that older students would not want to choose this book because over the years Winnie-The-Pooh has been reinvented with babyish illustrations and themes.

I think this book would be a great aid in teaching cause and effect. Each story has something happen that students could easily pinpoint the cause and effect of. We could make a chart as a class and they could even imagine their own story using the same characters that demonstrates their understanding of cause and effect.