The Pooh Perplex: A Freshman Casebook

from DinadansFriend

The simple prose of A.A. Milne did create a book beloved of English speaking people, and thus, an academic descends upon the canon looking for reasons to read the books...as an antidote to the academic justification for reading "children's books", we have this set of fictitious essays. The underl...

from MrsLee

A spoof on the varied forms of literary criticisms and critics themselves. This book would be a better read for someone who has a literary/literature background. Never having taken classes like those, I only bring to it the experience I have from trying to read a few critics, I don't read them mu...

from jmattas

A dozen "critical essays" about the Pooh stories by as many literary "critics". I think this is one of the best, and definitely the funniest Pooh spin-off book (it was one of the first, too). The analysis of literature is to me a fascinating topic, and here we have an academic caricature of its v...