Angel Rodriguez (1)

From waking up to bedtime, it's a day in the life of Pooh, told in verse.

Except it's not a realistic day in Pooh's life as it has only lunchtime and suppertime, completely skipping breakfast and snacks. Also, Pooh is a social animal and none of his friends appear in this book, not even for playtime or craft time.

Well, actually, Piglet does appear in a dream during Pooh's naptime, sporting wings and a whistle as he flies with birds -- Wait! Is he an angel? Has Piglet died? Has everyone died? show more Is this a day in the life of post-apocalyptic Pooh?!?!?!

Suddenly, it just got interesting . . .

(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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It's clever to have all the characters bring Pooh birthday presents that highlight different shapes, but the rhymes are just too forced and awkward to make this book a favorite.

(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 show more out. Track my progress here:
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This is a slapdash collection of three other coloring/activity books. While there is a copyright for Disney Enterprises, the name of the publisher is not anywhere on the book that I could find.

• Piglet's Big Movie: The Littlest Helper / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators

For some reason all the text of the original coloring book adaptation of the 2003 film has been omitted, so only the nice illustrations remain. It was sort of interesting to review the movie in show more pantomime, but anyone unfamiliar with it would be quite lost I assume.

• Winnie the Pooh: Nighttime Noises / Helena Winston, author; Darrell Baker, illustrator

Once again, all the text of the original story has been omitted. I'm not familiar with the original tale, but from what I can suss out from the images, Pooh and Piglet are scared of noises in the night, but wander around in the dark and figure out they're mostly coming from their friends or harmless creatures in the Hundred-Acre Wood

• Winnie the Pooh: Let's Go on a Picnic / Janet Halfmann, author; Angel Rodriguez, illustrator

Arbitrarily the text is included in the final story. But it is also the least interesting story as the friends just gather supplies for and frolic at a picnic.

(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 clever progression through the senses has Pooh using all five as he tracks a bee to some yummy honey.

(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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