The Best Bear in All the World: A Collection of Winnie-the-Pooh Stories

by Jeanne Willis, Kate Saunders, Brian Sibley, Mark Burgess (Illustrator), Paul Bright

Overview

For the 90th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh, a sequel featuring new stories and a new character from the Hundred Acre Wood.

Now a New York Times Bestseller. 

The Trustees of the Pooh Properties have commissioned four authors to write in the timeless style of A.A. Milne to create a quartet of charming new adventures for Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends. Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall: take a trip back to the Hundred Acre Wood with a collection of tales sure to delight year-round.

One story finds Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet on a quest to discover the "Sauce of the Nile" (they suspect it's apple). And in another, all the animals rally around poor Eeyore when he thinks he sees another donkey eyeing his clover. The winter story features a new penguin character, based on a stuffed toy owned by Christopher Robin Milne himself. Readers of all ages will love rediscovering old friends and making new ones in this essential new volume of Pooh stories.

The book feature beautiful color artwork in the style of Ernest H. Shepard by Mark Burgess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399187476
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	10/25/2016
Series:	Winnie-the-Pooh Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,136,988
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	850L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jeanne Willis is one of Great Britain's most prolific and well regarded children's authors. She is the author of Paddington: The Junior Novel (2014).

Kate Saunders won Britain's prestigous Costa Children's Book Award for Five Children on the Western Front (2014), a contribution to the classic fantasy series that E. Nesbit inaugurated in 1902 with Five Children and It.

Brian Sibley has written and edited many books, including The Pooh Sketchbook and The Pooh Book of Quotations and The Lord of the Rings: Official Movie Guide.

Paul Bright is the author a number of picture books.

Editorial Reviews

★ 02/01/2017
Gr 2–5—As Winnie-the-Pooh turns 90 years old, four respected children's authors have imagined entertaining new adventures for the iconic bear and his friends. Echoing the voice of A.A. Milne and illustrated in the style of E.H. Shepard, this new volume invites readers to "join Winnie-the-Pooh for a year of adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood." In autumn, Pooh and Piglet fear a "mithickle" dragon is about to invade the forest. The chronicle continues into winter, when a shy and proper penguin who needs "Bringing Out of Himself" visits. In spring, Eeyore worries that "Another Donkey" has come to steal his thistles. Finally, Pooh and Piglet go in search of "the Sauce" of the river that runs through the Wood in summer. With the assistance of Christopher Robin and his animal friends, Pooh optimistically stumps through the forest seeking a solution to each tale's dilemma. The changing seasons are captured in idyllic, sunlit illustrations sprinkled throughout the text. Beginning with the eye-catching endpapers, Burgess deftly portrays life in the Hundred Acre Wood and the friendship enjoyed by Pooh, Piglet, and all the other familiar characters. The evocative visuals perfectly complement the gentle and amusing narrative. In an engaging afterword, Bright, Sibley, Willis, Saunders, and Burgess reflect on their childhood memories of the "Bear of Little Brain." VERDICT Replete with Pooh's wise insights about the simple things in life, this collection will delight a new generation of readers.—Linda L. Walkins, Saint Joseph Preparatory High School, Boston

School Library Journal

Martin Jarvis takes on the narration of four new Winnie-the-Pooh stories and nails it. In this authorized sequel Jarvis has all the emphasis, hesitation, skepticism, authority, bluster, elongated pauses, grumpiness, breathlessness, hush, and tempo and voice modulation listeners expect from a Winnie-the-Pooh 90th anniversary celebration. Listeners will meet Penguin, who arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood, take an adventure to find the sauce—or is it the source?—of the Nile, help Eeyore protect his clover patch, and search for a dragon. Jarvis’s delight is clear as he delivers the dramatic moments involving Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyore, who is portrayed in Jarvis’s deepest and most gravelly voice. To complete the production, the four authors share their individual inspirations for each adventure. A.R. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2017 - AudioFile