Pooh Learns More About Bees

by Hallie Marshall (Adapted from a story by), Walt Disney Company, John Kurtz (Illustrator)

Pooh borrows a balloon from Christopher Robin and tries to fool a different hive of bees with his old rain cloud trick.

22 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

In this direct sequel to Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter One: "In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin" Pooh asks Christopher Robin to help him try the balloon/cloud deception on another hive of bees, one that is not filled, he hopes, with "the wrong sort of bees." It plays out exactly the same as the original tale, though with a new song, so I'm not sure why they bothered to make it a sequel instead of just letting it be a retelling.


FOR REFERENCE:

This book is a lightly edited and abridged version of a short story that originally appeared in Lessons from the Hundred-Acre Wood: Stories, Songs, & Wisdom from Winnie the Pooh by Hallie Marshall and illustrator John Kurtz. This book is also collected in a set called Winnie the Pooh Music Box that contains other adaptations of Marshall's short stories from the aforementioned book as well as Marshall's Oh Bother!: Pooh's Book About Trying New Things.


(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.)

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story.