Carson Van Osten

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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Roo's whining about how bored he is, but Kanga's not having that crap today so she kicks his little butt outside where he finds his friends and some fun things to play with in nature.

A bland story with art that seems a little off in places, like Roo's eyes having white around them, Rabbit looking downright evil, and Pooh's face always looking down or away from the reader.

(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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The Hundred-Acre Wood is experiencing a bit of a drought, and Pooh's favorite tree starts turning brown, so he rallies his friends to help water it. In a forced coincidence, everyone else loves that particular tree too for different reasons, so they're eager to assist . . with a touch of slapstick clumsiness.

It's a fairly bland story, but it might have won me over except for the artists' insistence on drawing Pooh's head in unflattering angles, always have him looking down or slightly away from the reader. There's not a single straight-on Pooh grin or a joyful smackerel of honey to be found in the book. Gimme the honey shot! Show me the honeyyyyyyy!

(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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I was in Half-Price books today and since I'm in the middle of my Pooh project, I couldn't resist buying a little something from their Pooh shelf. Appropriately enough, this used book was about the old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Less appropriately, this trash proved to be more trash than treasure.

The story lacked the humor, energy, and charm that the best Pooh stories have (I'm looking at you Milne and Zoehfeld). It dully traced falling dominoes as one friend's repurposing of a secondhand item resulted in another friend repurposing something, and another, and so on, until a sedate tea party and a couple bad poems put an end to it all.

The only value my daughter and I got from the book was realizing how much the artist seemed to dislike drawing Winnie the Pooh. We laughed as we counted up that two-thirds of the illustrations have him facing away from the camera, so to speak. Of the remaining third, he is looking down in three-quarter or nearly full profile; not once is his face drawn straight on.

A sad little addition to our bookshelf.

(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)