The House at Pooh Corner

Not really, but what I...

My strongest memory of, of books when I was a child is my mum reading The House at Pooh Corner to me and my two younger brothers.

So quite a wide age range, nine, six, and three, and I just remember it so strongly for the sort of laughter and the fun and, and the looking forward to the routine of it, knowing it was gonna happen.

And I think with hindsight, I've realized that that was a kind of key moment in me becoming a reader, because it was what we did as a family, you know, and it was...

recommendations.Um, you know, it's, it's funny, it's, it's a book that's sort of, um, newer in my world in terms of like it wasn't necessarily a book that I read when I was a ki- I'm sure I read it as a kid.

Um, but it was "The House on Pooh Corner." The Winnie-the-Pooh books, you read them to your kids, and they're hard.

They're like, it's a lot of like kind of bouncing language that's feels like a little bit like doing tongue tires or whatever you call those things.

Like it's, it's, it's just like it's not a lot happens, and yet the language is very language-y, I'll put it that way.

And, and you know, I'm sitting there, and I, and I, my kid was probably, my eldest son was probably five or six, and I'm, you know, nestled in a beanbag reading "The House on Pooh Corner," and, um, you know, you get through all the chapters, and there's this segment right at the end of the book where all of a sudden you realize he's talking to you.

He's talking to you, parent, not, not five-year-old.

And there's this bit about the river, and the river, you know, it starts out as this bubbling brook that has so much energy.