Mark Marderosian

This coloring and activity book has a thin story of the Pooh friends helping Rabbit plant his garden, with connect-the-dots, mazes, and counting activities mixed in.

The illustrations in this have been recycled in at least two other coloring books: Playfully Pooh in 2003 and Showers of Flowers in 2006. Given Disney's penchant for recycling, I do not doubt a few more derivatives have been cranked out in the last 16 years, so please let me know if you come across any.

Also, this edition has a show more die-cut handle at the top to make it easy for children to carry it. I wonder how many children instead took advantage and used it as a grip to turn the book into a paddle or weapon. Coloring book slap fight! Maybe we could arm Will Smith and Chris Rock with a pair for a rematch at the next Oscars?

(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... ) show less

Pooh and his friends help Rabbit with the fall harvest in his garden. And that's it.

If you like watching people do chores, you're golden. If you have enough of your own chores to worry about, you might pass this by.

(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh books my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – show more yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.) show less

All the dogs run around making wishes for Christmas, and since it's a children's book, they all come true. Yawn.

A toddler loses his balloons into a tall tree. Clifford, Cleo and T-Bone to the rescue!

A-yup. There it is.