A lot of Disney Winnie the Pooh books are actually adaptations of the Pooh films rather than the original source material, but this book seems to straight-up adapt A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter Five: In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump, but with art in the Disney style instead of modeled after E. H. Shepard.

The catch, however, is that this book was originally produced in Denmark, and I always wonder if:
1) some uncredited translator simply converted the Danish text straight back to English without referencing the original book;
2) a person who doesn't even speak Danish just went directly to the original book and adapted Milne's words; or,
3) someone who knows neither Danish or Milne just whipped up some words to match the pictures?

This has none of Milne's wordplay, but enough of his cleverness seeps through to still make this a tasty, if very diluted sampling of his work.

(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... ) ( )

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"Pooh and Piglet try to catch a heffalump."

I love the creativity and adventure in this book. I would definitely use it to show kids about the magic in creativity and having a sense of wonder! ( )

the Winnie the pooh gang is going on a picnic and during the picnic Christopher Robin tells the gang he is going to be gone today. They all talk about the heffalump "monster" and how to catch one... When they go look for Christopher Robin they see he is gone and has left a not but they misread as it saying the heffalump took him so they go out to find the monster. The heffalump turns out to be a sweet elephant looking like animal and they all become friends. Then they find Christopher Robin who was gone and said he would be back soon