Jamie Simons

Another case of Disney recycling. Times two. First, the title Oh, Bother! Someone Won't Share! has already been used a decade before by an entirely different story by Betty G. Birney featuring Rabbit learning a lesson about sharing. Second, this story has the same pictures as Sharing Can Be Fun and many of the same words, but someone has fiddled with the text on every page, changing or dropping words and adding sentences.

Well, I guess I'll just recycle my review from yesterday about Sharing show more Can Be Fun the same way:

Rabbit is always the go to villain in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Here the Pooh friends passive-aggressively pressure him into sharing a log he intended to use in his garden as a shady seat so they can all go on a cool ride down the stream on a hot day. I hope this book doesn't get banned for being a blatant display of evil socialism triumphing.

I'm really loving the art by Atelier Philippe Harchy in this series.

(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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Tigger is losing a game of hide-and-seek with a brown hare, so everyone joins in to help find it. As Roo finds out that various creatures hide themselves by blending in with their surrounding, kids will enjoy trying to find the secret hare hidden on almost every page. (I'm choosing to believe there were a few pages without the hare rather than admitting I couldn't find it.)

It got a little too real when Owl went full predator and sought to spot the hare while in flight. It really upped the show more stakes for the hare's hiding ability.

(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 favorite shirt feels smaller one morning and pretty soon that snowballs into him persuading his friends that the entire Hundred-Acre Wood must be shrinking instead of jumping to the more obvious conclusion. Stories spun around such stupidity always make me grit my teeth.

I do have to point out that Kanga is a mistress of chaos. As seems to happen many times, despite knowing what's really going on, she just stays mum and lets Roo run off and stir everyone up outside so she can hang in show more the house and chill or do chores without interruption. Cheaper than a babysitter.

(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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Pooh learns a lesson about trust and responsibility when he looks after Christopher Robin's toys, while I get reinforcement for a lesson I learned long ago: looking after other people's crap or asking someone to look after my precious treasures creates a minefield of stress and hurt feelings best avoided when possible.

(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 show more 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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