>>>FWIW, I was raised on Milne--the books, not the movie...
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>Those were different days... even though Arnold in Kindergarten Cop read kids to sleep with a passage from Milne, I suspect fewer kids are charmed these days by those antique interactions. Swallows and Amazons, ditto. More likely to involve excited million-mile-per-second gabble or shorthand twittering about Kardashians behaving badly these days.

Really.

Not so many years back I read my son Moonfleet and Treasure Island . He loved them and still does. He also now loves rap (which I completely fail to get) and Raymond Chandler.