Ann Braybrooks

UPDATE - 12/25/2022

I was bamboozled!

When I started to read my Pooh book of the day, Funny Hunny Christmas I was reminded that it is just yesterday's book, Pooh: The Sweetest Christmas, with a new title and a new cover illustrated by Costa Alavezos. The insides are identical in text and pictures, written by Ann Braybrooks and drawn by Josie Yee. My daughter pointed out that at least we are only out 48 cents according to the Half-Price Books sticker on the cover of the original book.

ORIGINAL REVIEW - 12/24/2022

After too many pages of sifting through the junk in his house to regift as Christmas presents to his friends, Winnie the Pooh decides he must make the ultimate sacrifice and give out his full stock of honey pots. But as he gives each friend a pot -- over and over, page by page -- they give him a present back with smirks and cryptic little statements that go over Pooh's head.

Sort of cute, sort of annoying.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (mehr)

Piglet's scared of Halloween, but Pooh talks him into sharing a totem pole costume so they can trick-or-treat together. It gets repetitive as they keep meeting scary figures that turn out to be their friends.

This was originally published in 1997 as a Little Golden Book entitled "Trick or Treat!" I own the 2001 Pictureback edition with the new title of "Pooh's Happy Halloween." The words are exactly the same as the original edition but some of the illustrations have been cropped and flipped, so be sure to get the original edition if you want the full picture.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (mehr)

All the Pooh friends hunt for bugs. The only thing even vaguely interesting is that Rabbit and Owl spend much of the book bickering on their own side quest and that is a pairing that rarely gets any sort of time in any Pooh work.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... )… (mehr)