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Title	:	The Enchanted Places
Author	:	Christopher Milne
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	2nd Penguin Reprint
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	January 26th 1978 by Harmondsworth Penguin (first published January 1st 1974)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography Memoir

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Well, this is "basically" the memoirs of Christopher Robin as a grown-up in a collection of short and really pleasant little essays.

He is remembering and reconstructing his life as a child; trying to stay as objective as possible and trying to present himself / his parents / his dad objectively and independently of the Winnie-the-Pooh books while at the same time also representing the effects they had on their lives.

It feels rather a bittersweet experience for him. While you can feel the love/respect of the child for his parents and that the reminiscence about his childhood brings undoubted pleasure and yearning; you can also feel the pain and a certain amount of bitterness the adult feels, who so unsuccessfully tried to break out of the trap that being his father's child and the "hero" of his books presented all his life.

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Original Title:	The Enchanted Places
ISBN:	0140034498 (ISBN13: 9780140034493)
Edition Language:	English

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When I was younger I was a huge fan of Winnie The Pooh. I had all the videos, teddies, everything, My room was plasted in Winnie The Pooh merchandice. It was only a week ago when I started researching A.A. Milne and actually discovered the books where based on his son. Or inspired. After more googling I found out that Christopher Robin Milne had wrote a few books based on being 'the real christopher robin.' I immediately ordered The Enchanted Places and finished it in 3 days. Milne talks about

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 his father's childhood stories but actually lived them. The lines between real life and fiction blur in this memoir, as Christoper doesn't always seem to remember which parts of the Pooh-books were

Though I did not until an adult read Winnie The Pooh I enjoyed it very much. This book, written by the author's son, is every bit as enchanting. May we never forget 'those enchanted places' (either in physical reality or within us) where the past is always present.

Inspired by the film, 'Goodbye, Christopher Robin', my last research paper for my first semester of postgrad classes has been an analysis of the ways in which real children are utilized for the promotion of cultural products. Christopher Milne was perhaps the poster child for such an analysis, and thankfully had been a writer in his later years. He wrote lyrically, stories of his own memories and childhood, from his own perspective. Though not as vehement as some interviews and journalists have

Christopher Milne was born in 1920 and is the boy in the Winnie the Pooh books written by his father. In this memoir he tells of his happy childhood on their farm (which becomes the fifty acre wood in the stories), where he was raised by a nanny he loved and two parents who loved him, but who seemed, somehow, detached from him.Although the pace of this book is slow the descriptions of the farm and Christophers relationships with his parents is absorbing. I found it odd that his author father

What a devastating book. Turns out Christopher Robin was not a happy-go-lucky child.

A set of reflections from Christopher Milne. It seems rather sad to me that he spent his life having to manage people's expectations of him, just because his father exploited him for gain when he was a small child. There is a lesson here for all parents. His description of the details and intimacy of his childhood household are quite interesting.