Mothers

A saccharine little tale of Mother's Day wherein everyone in the Hundred-Acre Wood gets a present for Kanga except Roo, who forgot. But Kanga makes it okay with a little motherly love.

I find World's Best Mama more interesting as another example of Disney recycling. There is a 2002 abridged and simplified reader version adapted from this book by it's original author, Isabel Gaines, entitled I Love You, Mama! in the "Step Into Reading" series. Both versions use the exact same illustrations by Mark Marderosian and Fred Marvin, only the text and title have changed. Curiously that new version has been published in the "Step into Reading" series as both Step 1 and Step 2. I believe the series changed the scale on its reading levels at some point, converting their Super Early and Early levels to Step 1 and moving the rest of the levels up a notch.

I don't own a copy of World's Best Mama, but I read a digital copy in order to compare it to I Love You, Mama! as part of my Pooh Project.

(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... ) ( )