Sebastian Cabot credited as playing...
Narrator
- Narrator: Winnie the Pooh crawled out of the gorse bush, brushed the prickles from his nose, and began to think again.
- Winnie the Pooh: Think, think, think.
- Narrator: And the first person he thought of was...
- Winnie the Pooh: Winnie the Pooh?
- Narrator: [chuckles] No, Christopher Robin.
- Winnie the Pooh: Oh.
- Narrator: Now, when Pooh heard his pooh-coo clock, he knew it was time for something. But he was a bear of very little brain, so when he thought, he thought in the most thoughtful way he could think.
- Narrator: Now Pooh wasn't one to give up so easily. When he set his mind to honey, he stuck to it. Now, honey rhymes with bunny, and bunny rhymes with...
- Winnie the Pooh: Rabbit? I like Rabbit, because he uses short, easy words like, "How about lunch?", and "Help yourself, Pooh."
- Rabbit: [Listening from inside] Pooh? Lunch? Oh, no. Not again. Oh my, oh my, oh my goodness gracious.
- Narrator: Christopher Robin lived in another part of the forest where he could be near his friends and help them with their problems. On this summer day, gloomy old Eeyore, being stuffed with sawdust, had lost his tail again.
- Narrator: And then, one morning, when Rabbit was beginning to think that he might never be able to use his front door again, it happened!
- Rabbit: [after Pooh budges through Rabbit's door a little ways] He budged! Hooray! Christopher Rabin! Uh, uh, Chrostopher Robin, he bidged! He badged! He booged! Today's the day!
- Narrator: [opening lines] This could be the room of any small boy, but it just so happens to belong to a boy named Christopher Robin. Like most small boys, Christopher Robin has toy animals to play with. And they live together in a wonderful world of make believe. But his best friend is a bear called Winnie the Pooh or Pooh for short. Now Pooh had some very unusual adventures and it all happened in an enchanted place called the Hundred Acre Wood.
- [the book opens]