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Love this. The original text always makes me tear up:

“We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?” asked Piglet.

“Even longer,” Pooh answered.

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So sweet.

And so sad to realize that the innocence is now gone for so many and/or maybe it never existed. I fear for our precious grandchildren😰

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I know, Santini Fan 😿 I can’t imagine my childhood without the magic of books like those by A.A. Milne, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Jean Craighead George, Scott O’Dell, Astrid Lindgren, Louisa May Alcott, the Brothers Grimm, and, of course, Lewis Carroll. Lemony Snicket also belongs in the core childhood curriculum, although I didn’t read “A Series of Unfortunate Events” until I was an adult. I think if we can get these books into the hands of children and grandchildren, we may have hope for the future yet.

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It's funny to see the familiar names of authors I also loved even though MMA and I are a generation apart. One of the best things about homeschooling was becoming even more of a lover of children's literature. Someone has said it is better written than adult lit b/c children are not easily taken in by bad writing. Homeschooling meant I got introduced to some new authors like Richard Peck, whose writing is hilarious. Even though Bill Peet was writing during my childhood, I wasn't familiar with him. His metered rhyming books and illustrations are great fun. Madeline L'Engle and Frances Hodgson Burnett are two authors we got to revisit. Books are why I don't enjoy movies; my imagination is far superior to anything created for the screen. The digital age has already robbed too many generations of the ability to use their imagination, not to mention having a long enough attention span to read a book.

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my mom grew up in poverty ... i think she thoroughly enjoyed reliving her childhood raising her three daughters... weekly trips to the library & all the classics... one Christmas she hand sewed a Piglet and Pooh that looked exactly like the characters... she had an amazing eye for detail and artistic talent💕🐱🙏🐱💕

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That was a wonderful gift she gave you: instilling the love of reading great literature!

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She sounds amazing.

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... forgot to mention she also fashioned an Eeyore with detachable button on tail... xoxoxo

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...’Secret Garden’ = my all-time favorite 💕🐱💕.

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Yes, I love that book also and think it's her best of the 3 I'm familiar with. "A Little Princess" is very good, although the main character is a little too perfect. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" is over the top in that way! I found the main character to not be believable for that reason. Have you read Kate DiCamillo's "The Tale of Despereaux"? That title just popped into my head. It's a Newbery winner - maybe one of the last ones that was decent. How about "Understood Betsy"? I reread that one occasionally because I enjoy stories of transformation.

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... you’re making me sentimental about books, library trips... thank you for the recommendations ... will check them out... like curling up with a physical book & physically turning the pages at my own pace, savoring the words & illustrations

💕🐱🙏🐱💕

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Now I feel badly for leaving Madeleine L’Engle and so many others out. When I was in college, I had the opportunity to arrange a special luncheon for Madeleine L’Engle and her friend and got to invite 12 people to participate. She was lovely and wise.

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Don't feel bad, MAA - there are so many, we could do this all night! 😺

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...just a few months ago recommended Bill Peets’ Cappyboppy to neighbors’ kids who loved it! love your comments on kids’ discerning taste in writing!

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I think I've managed to collect all his books but one thanks to a bargain book place that doesn't exist anymore and a couple of used books I bought on Amazon, including Cappyboppy. What a family that must've been to grow up in! I would have loved it.

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Meanwhile, I was reading Fighting Fantasy books where I could pretend I was a warrior descending into dungeons to battle trolls and goblins, or a pulp scifi sleuth investigating alien shenanigans on a far off world, or a samurai, or a battle robot pilot etc etc. No time for silly sentimentality!

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And those are healthy books for a man cub! Our son read the Brian Jacques "Redwall" series over and over. My husband reads "The Lord of the Rings" series every few years. I love children's literature but otherwise read only non-fiction.

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And how could I forget James Herriot?! Although he should be read at all stages of life (then again, so should all of the authors I've mentioned).

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I still have my childhood copy of "When we are six" 😊

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Me too - all the Pooh books.

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😻😻😻

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The Velveteen Rabbit was my childhood fav.

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Tearjerker! 😿

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Don’t forget Grimm’s Fairy Tales!

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And Elsa Beskow.

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there is still hope.

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The best.

However I also like the one about piglet being nervous because poohs not wearing any pants.

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😹😹😹

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The wonderful thing about tiggers

Is tiggers are wonderful things

Their tops are made out of rubber

Their bottoms are made out of springs

They’re bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun

But the most wonderful thing about tiggers is I’m the only one

IIIII’m the only one!

Ah, the days of innocence, before the shadow of fascist fauci tyranny darkened the land and turned frolicking felicitous kittengartners into felonious froward felines, and then into ferocious feline fighters for freedom.

Gato....?

https://twitter.com/BAMFkitty

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😻😻😻

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*sniff* yeah😢

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A good general rule for government:

“…doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.”-Pooh

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Pooh has a lot in common with a certain Ancient Chinese philosopher that modern China has unfortunately forgotten:

“The more restrictions and limitations there are, the more impoverished men will be … The more rules and precepts are enforced, the more bandits and crooks will be produced. Hence, we have the words of the wise [ruler]: Through my non‐​action, men are spontaneously transformed. Through my quiescence, men spontaneously become tranquil. Through my non‐​interfering, men spontaneously increase their wealth.”

The Tao of Pooh is pretty close to the Tao of Lao Tse.

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Lao Tse!

I love this board.

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

~ Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

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I’m reminded also of the Old Testament. When the Israelites gave up their freedom and turned to a strongman, a monarch, to save them, they were warned that they were going to be exploited:

“This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. [I Sammuel 8:11-

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Put not your trust in princes.

~Psalm 146:3

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This is also the Tao of President Coolidge, 'Silent Cal'

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Very true. Unfortunately that's why we have something called Politician's Fallacy:

"We have to do something!"

"This is something."

"Therefore we have to do This!"

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Eeyore's tail falling off had nothing to do with his fourth booster.

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Thanks for noticin' my tail- that means it's workin'

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I can’t stop laughing!

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🐱hehehe🐱

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ha!

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If somehow Pooh and Piglet could have been riding in a semi…

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So many parents I know have yanked their kittens out of government schools and are homeschooling. the only hard part is deciding which home school networks to join. I am very happy my younger daughter is going to home school her kids.

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Justin Trudeau, the old grey Donkey, stood by the side of the stream, and looked at himself in the water. "Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic."

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Do NOT demean Donkey by comparing him to Trudeau. 🤣🤣🤣

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one of my favorite books from childhood (and still ! ) i love the original shepard illustrations shown here. the disney version destroyed the beauty and spirit of the original stories, as disney has done to every single classic it ever touched.

pooh would certainly prefer to be ungovernable, and would persuade piglet that compliance leads nowhere good.

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YES!!!!

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Hi gatito, I know it's a Friday but have a look at this correlation in increased mortality rates (in non-Covid deaths) as the booster programme begins.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/update-correlation-between-increased

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Everyone knows vaccines are, coincidentally, the leading cause of coincidences.

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This is excellent

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"Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he shoved another magazine into the receiver and racked the slide.

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do I see a semi truck off in the distance?

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Come for the Covid information, stay for the shitposting

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Anyone who gave money to the GOFUNDME for the CDN truckers REQUEST YOUR MONEY BACK

They are giving it to charity of their choice

Resend to https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022

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Request a chargeback from your bank. GoFundMe didn't perform the services they advertised. Will cost them $15 per chargeback and they could even get booted by their payment processor if there are enough of them.

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The truckers lawyers apparently have contacted them. But it may be a good idea anyway, what you said. Because if GoFundMe uses even a penny of it in a manner inconsistent with the Freedom Convoy 2022 purposes, that is cause for withdrawal and litigation.

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Never liked Winnie-the-Pooh.

For a really subversive children's book, read "The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes" published 1939. Best anti-stereotypes, anti-compliance-with-the-ruling-order book ever written, for any age. And if you ain't sobbing by the end...

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I love that book. Hooray for our public library.

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🇨🇦🇨🇦AMEN🇨🇦🇨🇦

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How’s it going? Are you still in Ottawa?

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Until Monday

It’s electric!

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YAYYYY! with you in spirit.

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yes, gatito. your books are much better! never read the filth that our mancubs are exposed to. we'll be friends forever gatito, even longer. thanks margaret anna alice, for the mancub text. :)

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Truck Yeah Pooh!

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Xi Jinping is Winnie the Pooh now

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please do not insult Winnie the Pooh

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It's actually a sort of insulting, behind his back, nickname for him in China. A bit like calling mobster Ben Siegel "Bugsy".

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Winne is pristine, the POS in China is an asshole.

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Ungovernable, unacceptable and deplorable am I.

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You, my friend, are the best!! Uplifted my Friday afternoon.

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Just wonderful and brilliant as always .

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I’m surprised no ones mentioned Tigger!?! On this post. Cat?

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I know I’m supposed to be a brave cat but sometimes I’m more like piglet ❤️

The innocence our world has tried to steal from us....

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So good

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I never read the Winnie the Pooh books as a child, though I do remember reading some Peter Rabbit.

Both were corrupted for me after I joined the Marines and discovered the parody books,

"Peter rabbit Tank killer" and "Pooh goes apeshit".

DO NOT READ if you are easily offended and do not want your childhood memories destroyed.

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back in the 1970s I took my two children out of public school in California, (elementary) I was seeing their tests come back with lots of teacher mistakes. I went to the school and wanted it fixed, telling them that my child cannot learn when a wrong answer on a test was counted as correct and a right answer was counted as wrong. I was told by the administration that the teacher does not correct the tests, but aides do and the aides are always different so there was no way to correct the situation. So out of school my kids came and I put them into a private school, which I could not really afford, but the alternative was a bad education. I sense that things are even worse now. I also did a stretch of home schooling when things did not go well at the public school in high school years.

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