Alan Batson

A collection of super short stories featuring new adventures with familiar faces. While this wasn't what I was expecting, I thought it was very interesting. The only major problem I had with it, is that it is super short. I wish there were more stories. These stories are brand new, totally separate from the original films, which I thought was a fun twist. As a huge Disney fan, I like when classic characters get to meet new characters and have new adventures. There are plenty of rehashed show more adaptations of movies out there so I love when I get something a little more fresh to read and enjoy. show less

A collection of four stories for beginning readers. The sentences are too simple and repetitive for a reader just out for entertainment, and the stories are 40 pages each so they just seem to go on forever.

"Pooh's Kindness Game"
After Pooh has helped various friends around the Hundred-Acre Wood, he starts a "kindness game" so everyone takes turns helping someone else.

"Who Cares? Pooh Cares!"
Pooh and Piglet find a duckling and take care of it until they can find its mother.

"The Forgiving show more Friend"
Someone has taken the produce from Rabbit's garden. Tigger makes the rounds trying to get the thief to confess.

"What Good Friends Do"
Piglet's fears are getting the better of him as he starts and hides at every little sound. Pooh tries to comfort him and show him how the sounds are perfectly normal. This story also appears in World of Reading: Disney's Lots of Love! Three Sweet Stories with the same pictures and general story but a completely re-written script by the same creative team. Which -- why? Why rewrite every sentence when both books are both Level One in the same World of Reading series?

FOR REFERENCE:

Contents: Pooh's Kindness Game -- Who Cares? Pooh Cares! -- The Forgiving Friend -- What Good Friends Do

"What Good Friends Do" is adapted by Kelsey Sullivan from a story by Nancy Parent, originally published in World of Reading: Disney's Lots of Love! Three Sweet Stories, 2019, with the same illustrations used here, credited to Alan Batson and Andy Grey.

The title "Who Cares? Pooh Cares!" has also been used for a book in the Pooh Adore-ables series, but the two stories are completely unrelated except for the title.

(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

Such a cute book that's fun to read alone or with your kiddos to drive home some important life lessons and make them easy to remember. The art is lovely.

My Son loves this book because it is a Star Wars book. I would say it is a book for and 7-8 year old, my Son is five and I am constaintly needing to explain passages and things ect. The way in which this book is worded makes it difficult for a younger child to understand. My Son also love the art work.