I had to add this book to my list because it is my all time favorite book EVER! Winnie-The-Pooh is a sweet little bear who LOVES honey, it's almost all he thinks about! Pooh also loves to go on adventures with his best friend Christopher Robin, as well as Tigger, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit. Winnie-The-Pooh was actually a story written by A.A Milne for his son, Christopher Robin.He wrote the stories in a way that incorporated his son in them with all of his sons favorite stuffed animals. It quickly reached the public and has been famous ever since. 

How I would use this book in my class:

I will read this book to my students one day in the hopes of getting them excited to read. I will express how this book is my favorite and always puts me in the mood to read! I will tell them that one day they too will find a book that makes them feel that way. I would also use this book in a lesson on famous authors (example being A.A Milne) and have my students do a research project on any of their favorite authors (or I can give them a author if they don't know of any).

DRA: 40

This book, along with all the tales of Winnie the Pooh, are some of my all time favorite stories. This cute story is filled with friendship and adventure. My cooperating teacher put aside the last part of the day when students were waiting for car riders and buses to be called, to read them a story. I loved that she made time for this, and that is exactly what I would do with this book in my classroom. This book is written on a DRA reading level of 40. It can be read with or to students of all students from kindergarten to fifth grade. It is a classic, and already part of my library. I love it! It would be silly for you not to love it too.

Guided Reading Level: R

This is a classic tale that brings in imagination and creativity. I would read this as an ongoing circle time book. I may give the opportunity to hold "reading buddies" while we read. Christopher Robin goes on many adventures with his friends learning about caring ,sharing, and friendship.

I'm not sure what it says about me that I don't really like any poetry written in the last fifty years. But it is no doubt some kind of meaningful that I have always loved Milne.

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Now I read it and think about a soldier coming back from WWI and choosing to immerse himself in domestic life, writing about and for children, and I feel tremendous pity for all those poor bastards, both the ones who made it back and the ones who didn't. I'm totally down with writing poetry and imagining the real lives of stuffed animals, and really looking very closely at a child too young to go to school. Everyone always says to parents "those years fly by so fast" which is true, but not helpful. It doesn't actually clear your life of any of the other things you have to do so that you can really soak in it. It doesn't give you a minute more of sleep in those years when you are chronically deprived. It certainly doesn't buy you an hour out of work to do something pleasant with a child. You go, Milne. I'm sorry that your use of his name and likeness wrecked Christopher Robin's life, but what are you going to do? Everyone's life sucks somehow. At least something good came of it. That's enough.