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Pooh can't imagine why his friends seem to be avoiding him and doing things without him, though he does have a faint notion that today might be a special day of some sort. It seems to me he, based on some other books I've read over the last year, that Pooh forgets this special day almost every year, resulting in a delightful surprise for him but just another retread for me.

(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 dislike when the story in a children's book is based on factually incorrect information. In this tale, for instance, Owl declares it is time for him to fly south for the winter . . . even though most types of owls rarely migrate with the seasons. It is not uncommon for Owl to give bad information in Pooh stories, but his lapses are usually pointed out by another character, and this time it's just left there uncorrected.

Rolling with the premise, the rest of the book is a ho-hum study in how various residents of the Hundred-Acre Wood cope with missing their absent friend . . . until his inability to navigate makes all the emotional turmoil moot.

Side note: This is another entry in Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh series that credits the story as an adaptation on the title page even though I cannot track down where the story may have first appeared. Frustrating.

UPDATE – JUNE 11, 2023

Yay, I finally found the source for this adaptation. It is very loosely based on the short story "Owl's Well That Ends Well" from Winnie the Pooh's Bedtime Stories, written by Bruce Talkington and illustrated by John Kurtz. It's such a loose adaptation, it actually incorporates pictures from other stories in the same book to add some very different aspects.

(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... )

Piglet hears scary sounds and sees scary shadows in the night, but Pooh helps him work out the non-scary reasons for them. Then the story simply repeats the exact same thing with Kanga and Roo. I guess that's one way to fill out the page count.

Once again the title page claims this is an adaptation, but I have no idea what it is adapting.

UPDATE, JUNE 15, 2023:

I have found at least part of the source of the adaptation! The second half of this book, featuring Kanga and Roo, is loosely adapted from the short story "Shadow Play" from Winnie the Pooh's Bedtime Stories, written by Bruce Talkington and illustrated by John Kurtz.

(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... )

Pooh is jealous that everyone else has a favorite place so -- perhaps forgetting his Thoughtful Spot or the Honey Tree -- he sets out to find his own, only to get lost. When things are put aright again, he has one of the sappiest realizations I've had the misfortune to read aloud.

Barbara Gaines Winkelman gets her second strike and is shaping up to be one of my least favorite Pooh writers. And the usually reliable Robin Cuddy turns in some oddly drawn faces on Pooh this go round, with lots of unnecessary lines around the snout.

(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... )

Pooh and his Hundred Acre friends star in a tale that is robbed of any joy or entertainment due to a heavy-handed, didactic script that reads more like a series of public service announcements than a story.

And I'm supposed to believe that Tigger can count to twenty? No way!

(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... )

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Genre:Fantasy/ Age: Primary
Review:
Pinocchio was given life by the Blue Fairy and went off to school. As he was walking two people asked him to join them and be a star rather than going to school. He said yes. He was put in a cage and called for help. The Blue Fairy appeared and asked him how he got caught. He lied and his noses grew, he learned never to lie again.
This is fantasy because it includes magic. The Blue Fairy giving a puppet life could never happen unless magic was involved. There is a supreme evil and this is lying. It is not typical for evil to be considered an action in stories, but lying is something that Pinocchio overcomes in his adventure.
Use:
1) Talk about classic fairy tales and why they are fun/good to read
2) Discuss lying and why it is bad to lie. maybe even set it up as a goal for individual students not to lie to parents/teachers/peers

informational book that discusses all the things that squirrels do to survive.
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Step into Reading with the story of Pinocchio and his growing nose.

A very wonderful children's book. It's entertaining, informative, and stunningly illustrated. Lovely.

This book is very educational and informative for children. The author does a superb job of creating an educational read about how Puffer, the fish, survives each and every day. The author provides the readers with information about how this certain fish cleans himself, survives, eats, and swims. Very well written.

I thought this book was awful, although my son (about six at the time we read it) said he enjoyed it. I'm pretty sure that it's a dramatization of the events on the Animal Kingdom theme park's dinosaur ride (which I haven't ridden; I was pregnant when I visited that park, so I couldn't ride any "roller coaster" type rides). But I thought this book was contrived in the worst way. The characters were annoying, the "action" was non-sensical, and I just plain thought it was stupid. Of course, it's also not very long, so at least I wasn't subjected to it for more than a night or two of bedtime reading.

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