John Kurtz

Another book in the series that refuses to let Pooh look toward the reader. He's always looking up, down, left or right.

This time, Pooh and Piglet take a nature walk, appreciating all the colors of fall. But the stream seems to be full of unnatural colors, and they have to track the source of pollution and clean up the mess. And yet, the pollution still comes off as more fun than bad. This book was originally sponsored by Kohl's, but perhaps rel="nofollow" target="_top">Norfolk Southern will commission a new edition to remind the folks of Ohio how harmless chemical spills can be.

(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:
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Yet another Pooh book where Eeyore's tail has gone missing. Things get corny when a couple members of the search party fall into a hole and the whole thing gets tied up in a silly, pat manner.

This is an abridged adaptation of a short story from Lessons from the Hundred-Acre Wood: Stories, Verse & Wisdom. The original isn't any better, but it comes with a longer and cuter version of the song Eeyore sings on the first page here.

(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:
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A poor adaptation of a short story from Lessons from the Hundred-Acre Wood: Stories, Verse & Wisdom by Hallie Marshall and John Kurtz that is in turn a flawed adaptation of the Disney short film, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, which is already an adaptation of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner Chapter Four: "In Which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees." It's the telephone game, Disney style!

So Tigger still gets stuck in a tree, and as in Milne's story he gets to come down without making the empty promise about never bouncing again that Rabbit tries to hold him to as shown in the Disney film. Instead, after Tigger's down, Rabbit goes around saying he wants to start a petition to stop Tigger's bouncing, but someone stands up to him and that puts a stop to it. The author tries to fix something that's not broken in order to squeeze in some sort of David and Goliath moral. Ugh.

In this little book, the pictures from Marshall's book get shrunk, sentences get deleted, and a few pages get shuffled around. Not a great reading experience, really.

(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)