I kind of love these Russian animated versions of Winnie-the-Pooh I recently stumbled across. If you know the stories as well as I do (I think my daughter and I have read each of the book stories several dozens times over the last six years), the fact that these are in Russian won’t matter much. There’s an odd charm to them: such beloved and well-known characters (previously so perfectly captured by E.H. Shepard) filtered through the character of another country. Here’s “Winnie-The-Pooh and the Honey Tree”:
