Classic Winnie-the-Pooh app wanders onto iPhone and iPad

Here’s a treat for anyone with fond memories of A.A. Milne’s original Winnie-the-Pooh stories, and the illustrations that accompanied them. There’s an app for that.

It’s called Classic Winnie-the-Pooh, and has been released for iOS by book publisher Egmont UK. The app collects those original stories, adding colour and animation to the illustrations. Actor Rufus Jones is on board to provide voice narration, too.

The app comes with one free story: ‘We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin’. The idea is that more stories will be added in the coming weeks and months, with parents able to buy them as in-app purchases.

For now, one is available: ‘Pooh Goes Visiting’, which costs £1.99. Another, ‘Tigger Comes to the Forest and has Breakfast’, is listed as coming soon.

There’s also ‘The World of Winnie-the-Pooh’, which also costs £1.99 and is billed as “extra materials for grown-ups”. That means biographies of Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard, pictures of the real-world locations that inspired the stories, and photos of the real Christopher Robin’s toys.

Classic Winnie-the-Pooh is a free download from the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

And if you and your kids are particularly keen Winnie-the-Pooh fans, it’s well worth checking out a pair of apps from Disney: the playful Winnie the Pooh Wonder and Wander, and the alphabetical education app Letters With Pooh.

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