Winnie-the-Pooh
by Walt Disney, A. A. Milne · first published 1986
37% recommend63% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Gentle, witty stories about friendship and small everyday adventures. The charm and humour are strong, and the original Milne books are richer than the Disney versions, suiting both children and adults.
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For the original book by A. A. Milne, see [Winnie-the-Pooh][1]. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL476641W
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"Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore" - Robin Sloan (a brilliant mix of history, mystery, humour and technology) "The Cuckoo's Egg" - Clifford Stoll (it really is as good as they always say ;-) ) "Winnie the Pooh" - A.A. Milne (delightful, not only for children) "Sofie's World" - Jostein Gaarder (a novel about the history of philosophy) several Discworld novels - Terry Pratchett (a series that manages to satirize…
on “Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016?” ↗"Maus" by Art Spiegelman "The Way Things Work" by David Macaulay "Winnie the Pooh" by A.A. Milne
on “Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?” ↗…tales same as: Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis | The Little Prince by A. de Saint-Exupéry | Six Bullerby Children by A. Lindgren (and many more form Lindgren) | Pettson and Findus by S. Nordqvist | Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne | few local authors (Petr Horáček, Jiří Karafiát, Daisy Mrázková...)
on “The case for not sanitising fairy tales” ↗> self-esteem issues, as if Eeyore did the RLHF inputs You need to reread Winnie-the-Pooh <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67098/pg67098-images.ht...> and The House at Pooh Corner <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73011/pg73011-images.ht...>. Eeyore is gloomy, yes, but he has a biting…
on “I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files” ↗Winnie-the-Pooh
on “Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?” ↗I put Calvin and Hobbes up on the pedestal next to Winnie the Pooh (the first two books by AA Milne). It’s a weird connection between being an adult and being a child. Like a bolt of lightning... that somehow repeats itself strip after strip or chapter after chapter.…
on “The power of imagination, and other parenting lessons from Calvin and Hobbes” ↗That’s old school. My favourite source where you can clearly see it in use is Winnie the Pooh; Milne rather liked the style.
on “The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)” ↗…a pool game? You're not very good at arguing your case. I see where you're trying to go with this, but that analogy sucks. Look, Disney just ruins everything. I grew up with the A.A. Milne books for Winnie the Pooh. As a child, I had a picture in my mind for all of the characters, appearance, voice, manner. Disney's Winnie the Pooh is not it, and they have such cultural dominance that their vision can seem to overwrite…
on “IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power” ↗Today i learned, that there is a latin translation of Winnie the Pooh. https://www.amazon.com/Winnie-Ille-Pu-Latin-Milne/dp/0140153... It even became a bestseller, and appeared on the list of New York Times bestsellers. Is it known, if translations of the work need to pay…
on “What’s entering the public domain on January 1” ↗…we started trying for a kid. Seriously, peak fatherhood moment. I'll savor it. That (and a few others are) on the embargo list: he's not allowed to see the film before we read the books. I wish I'd got Winnie the Pooh on there in time.
on “Maybe the Default Settings Are Too High” ↗I travel a lot, and while I'm on the road my fiance often struggles to get to sleep. I've got a small microphone that I travel with, and I record myself reading Winnie the Pooh stories, and chapters from The Hobbit. I host them on my website, and she can open it up and listen to a chapter. Children's stories are better for this, as they are usually written with the view of…
on “The Lost Pleasure of Reading Aloud” ↗Being a fan of the books, it was nice to see the soviet Winnie the Pooh cartoons (винни пух), because they hewed closer to Milne. I haven't seen their Mary Poppins yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't closer to Travers' story, either. "Wind of Change" (Ветер перемен)…
on “Pinocchio Dies, Bambi Gets Shot, and Other Changes to Disney Movies (2018)” ↗Winnie-the-Pooh hasn't belonged to the Milne estate for a very long time. Most of the rights rest with Disney. The estate has been involved in a multi-decade legal battle to get the books back, so that they could be…
on “What’s entering the public domain on January 1” ↗"Ruh" is the German name for Roo from the Winnie-the-Pooh stories (Kanga & Roo → Kängu & Ruh), so I guess someone gave the network some A. A. Milne to read. I wonder if you could find more artifacts like this to find the training data they used.
on “DeepL Translator – AI Assistance for Language” ↗Worth noting that almost all the rights for Winnie-the-Pooh rest with Stephen Slesinger, Inc and Walt Disney, and not with the Milne family. In '98, Clare, Christopher's daughter, attempted to prevent Slesinger from expanding their copyrights, but the US courts…
on “Winnie-the-Pooh brought joy to readers, but misery to the Milnes” ↗