Synopsis

This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young … and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to us, almost as if they had slipped out of some other book by mistake. So we want you to know that the name of the book doesn’t mean that this is us being six all the time, but that it is about as far as we’ve got at present, and we half think of stopping there.”

About A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne (1882–1956) was an English author best known for his books about Winnie-the-Pooh. The narrators featured in this recording are associates of Voices of Today, a spoken audio production house located in Perth, Western Australia.

About Linda Barrans

Linda Barrans is a British narrator with a fondness for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She wrote the Sam the Sheep books to make positive use of the time during COVID lockdown, and to give herself and her friend Cate Barratt a modern piece to record together.

About Amy Soakes

Amy Soakes is an Australian voice actor with over twenty years of experience both in performing and production. She has produced over eight hundred video segments and voiced over a thousand television shows, corporate videos, training programs, and commercials. An expert in utilizing accents, she has been narrating audiobooks for more than four years.

About Tim Dehn

Tim Dehn is an English voice actor in Melbourne who has worked with local and international television and radio broadcasters. He has recorded for a wide variety of media, including corporate, training, and documentary voiceovers, radio programs such as ABC Classic and 3MBS, commercials, and audiobooks for the Christian Blind Mission for vision-impaired listeners.

About Roberta Jackson

Roberta Jackson has audiobooks on Audible, Learning Ally, the National Library Service for the Blind, and other platforms. She has narrated audiobooks for publishers and production companies including Simon & Schuster, Dreamscape, Lycan Valley, John Marshall Media, Voices of Today, and many more. Her work includes multiple characters in multi-cast productions: fantasy, thrillers, poetry, and Shakespeare. Roberta has also narrated character voice roles in audio dramas, podcasts, video games, and web comics.

About Denis Daly

Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and codirector of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.

About Gary MacFadden

Gary MacFadden is a voice talent based in western Montana, USA. He works in commercial, e-learning, explainer videos, and audiobooks. Gary has narrated and produced over forty audiobooks, and has produced another dozen books for other narrators. 

About David K. Martin

David K. Martin loves narrating audiobooks because it gives him an excuse to read on the job. He has previously worked as a forensic photographer and as a disability claims adjudicator. David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Arts from Penn State University, and lives near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with his wife and children. 

About Kathleen Li

Kathleen Li is an Asian American narrator whose parents are from Taiwan. She has a warm, engaging, and empathetic voice that lends itself equally to YA, fantasy, historical fiction, and self-help audiobooks, as well as to other genres. She has also voiced characters in several audio dramas, including Doctor Who: The Voice of Reason, Seminar, and Pod to Pluto. Kathleen lives in Austin, Texas, where she sometimes slips into a Texas twang. When she's not in her booth narrating, you can find her learning to play violin, doing water aerobics, or cheering on her son's high school marching band.

About Sarah Bacaller

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, philosopher, and performer from outer Melbourne/Naarm, Australia. She runs Thrive Audio and has narrated over eighty commercial audiobooks.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on May 12, 2022

The classic poems of A. A. Milne with Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. These poems are for probably 6 and below and anyone who loves Pooh. I read these at lunch and maybe I was in the wrong headspace for this, but I wasn't so impressed by them. I felt they were either too silly or the verse wa......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on September 14, 2015

Like When We Were Very Young, this is also a terrific compilation. I love it when an adult can see through a child's eyes without losing his "adult-ness". Milne's poetry is simple and beautiful, and his humour can be enjoyed by adults and children alike. Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh need no......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on August 15, 2009

When I was very young, I eyed this book cautiously. Six seemed immeasurably ancient. I feared being infected with age.......more

Goodreads review by John on October 12, 2021

This and the previous volume When We Were Very Young has reconfirmed my faith both in enduring literature (enjoyed by adults and children alike) and in poetry: it has rhythm, rhymes and tells a story and isn't just a string of words apparently meaninglessly stringed together. Perhaps the reason I en......more

Goodreads review by Manny on April 16, 2013

Of all the knights in Appledore The wisest was Sir Thomas Tom He multiplied as far as four And knew what nine was taken from To make eleven. He could write A letter to another knight.......more