Ann Braybrooks

Pooh encourages Eeyore to look for a four-leaf clover when he's having a particularly unlucky day, but the story goes super sappy when Eeyore realizes lucky charms aren't nearly as important as good friends when it comes to recovering from a bad day. Ick.

(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 show more 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 windy day has Piglet all up in his PTSD as he flashes back to a previous day when the wind whisked him far into the air while he was holding a balloon. But Pooh takes him round the Hundred-Acre Wood meeting all their friends one-by-one, with each one giving an example of why wind is good, all before a book-ending party of course.

Anyone got a good hashtag for this rusty old and much-abused Pooh story structure? #hundredacrehacks #WinnieThePoohAndTropesToo #poohbearcirclejerk show more #poohsgenericadventurethesearchforanewplot

(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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Ouch! Eeyore finds out he is everyone's second priority as he makes the rounds of the Pooh friends asking for help to find his lost tail. They eventually half-ass some apologies but undercut it with some condescending winks as they prank him in the process.

One of the most mean-spirited Pooh books I've ever read.

(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 show more 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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Rabbit is too busy to play the Easter Bunny this year, so the Pooh friends each try on his Easter Bunny costume to disastrous but amusing results. Finally, Pooh stumbles upon the best and friendliest solution and saves the Easter party.

This is another example of Disney recycling. I noticed a statement in the indicia: "Originally published in slightly different form as The Very Best Easter Bunny by Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc., in 1997." I don't own that version, but I was able to show more find it on the Internet Archive and do a page-by-page comparison. For the 2003 The Easter Bear? sentences have been added, expanded, or reordered throughout by the original author or some uncredited editor, and there are some word choice changes. The pictures are the same in both versions though. I suppose there is a case for combining the two books as different editions of the same work, but I prefer them separate.

First sentences of The Very Best Easter Bunny:
Early one Easter, as Pooh and his friends were decorating eggs, Rabbit hurried over.
"Sorry, but I can't play the Easter Bunny this year," he announced. "I have to plant my garden. Here, Pooh. You do it."

First sentences of The Easter Bear?:
Early one Easter, as Pooh and his friends were decorating eggs, Rabbit hurried over.
"Sorry, but I can't play the Easter Bunny this year. I have to plant my garden," he said, holding a bunny costume. "Here, Pooh. You do it."

(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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