The Enchanted Places
Beyond the World of Pooh, Part 1

The bots Amazon have unleashed on this poor, unsuspecting site seem to have been at work here, "clearing up", because the cover of my edition has become extinct. (Sigh) ‐------------ This book is "basically" the memoirs of Christopher Robin as a grown-up in a collection of short and really pleasant li......more

How do you rate a book like this? How do you judge the literary qualities in another human beings memories? I really don't know. There doesn't seem to be any way to do this. "The Enchanted Places" is a memoir written by the son of A. A. Milne, the real-life Christopher Robin, who didn't only inspire......more

This is a mildly interesting but rather melancholy memoir by the real-life Christopher Robin, who was in the unusual position of being a little boy known by untold thousands of readers of Winnie-the-Pooh around the world, and yet also not being that boy. This situation made the usual challenges of a......more

An extraordinary book. I had read that Christopher Milne was bitter about being the "real life" Christopher Robin, but in this book he writes about his parents and his fractured fame with grace, wit, and generosity. Not at all a "behind the scenes" take on Winnie-the-pooh, but rather a multi-faceted......more

Christopher Milne certainly inherited his father's gift for writing. In fact, I had to keep reminding myself that this was Christopher's voice and not his father's. This is a very honest, insightful look at his family, childhood, fame, and life in general. It's obvious that there was much love and h......more