A fun adaptation of a segment of the same name from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh cartoon series. Pooh is always late since he runs on Pooh time, so a peeved Gopher decides to give him a turbo boost. But now Pooh is racing through the Hundred-Acre Wood at such high speeds that everyone decides he has to be slowed down. The episode then becomes a bit of a tribute to the old Road Runner cartoon with Gopher standing in for the hapless Wile E. Coyote. Eeyore plays a major role in fixing things, but of course he gets no credit when all is said and done.

It's fun to watch the show and read the book back to back and notice all the places where the storybook creators changed up the hijinks for some reason, e.g., Tigger's stripes get blown off at one point in the book whereas he just gets tangled in a tire swing in the cartoon.

FOR REFERENCE:

Picture book adaptation of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated segment "Fast Friends," from Season 2, Episode 9; first aired November 18, 1989; directed by Terence Harrison; story by Bruce Talkington; teleplay by Carter Crocker.

(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 – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.) ( )