How Did You Make That Web? Animal Builders

Winnie The Pooh's Thinking Spot #13

by Dina Anastasio, Adam Devaney (Illustrator)

Pooh learns all about the kinds of things that animals build.

Winnie the Pooh's Thinking Spot is a brand new series that explores the curious questions young children ask about the world around them.

Pooh and his friends wander through the Hundred-Acre Wood discovering all kinds of things such as nocturnal animals (Vol. 15 Why Aren't You Asleep?), how plants grow (Vol. 9 How Does Your Garden Grow?), and gravity (Vol. 3 Why Don't things Fall Up?). Each story incorporates simple scientific facts while examining how young children learn through listening, questioning, observing, comparing, and experimenting. And every story ends with a hands-on activity for parents and children to do together.

Winnie the Pooh s Thinking Spot Series
Disney Winnie the Pooh
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
ADVANCE PUBLISHERS
Size: 9x9x1/4

28 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Dina Anastasio grew up and lives in New York City. She lived in West Cork, Ireland, for many years. She is a freelance writer and past editor of Sesame Street Magazine (four years). She is a mother of two with three grandchildren.

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've been enjoying this series more since the last few volumes started to focus on animals. This one shows the interesting things they can make, from spider webs to nests to bee hives. Too bad beavers didn't make the cut; I love those industrious little guys!

Publishing trivia side note:

I purchased this entire series secondhand earlier this year from several different sources. After they showed up in their various packages and I opened them I was disappointed to find that this series was published in three different sizes. The books I've reviewed up till now -- volumes 1-12 -- have all been 7" x 7", but this one expands to 8" x 8", and the next two I own come in at a whopping 9" x 9". So instead of sitting nicely on my bookshelf as a perfect complete set, it sort of grows an awkward tail. I wonder which size provided the best sales for the publisher and why they felt the need to change it up so much? And are there more size variants out there? The contents of each size are the same, by the way, with none of them adding special content . . . just 15 or 32 square inches of paper.

[Kourtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute story

[Cara Byrne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is one of the few Winnie the Pooh picture books that engages with issues beyond the everyday conflicts and happenings of Christopher Robin's stuffed pals. If you are tiring a bit of these characters (I'm looking at you, Rabbit) because your child is going through a I-would-like-to-read-10-Winnie-the-Pooh-books-before-bed phase, this is a nice choice. I'm not familiar with other books in the "Thinking Spot" series, but this book is concise and brings in the Pooh characters in a way that deviates far from Milne's sweet prose but close to Disney's adaptations.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super great book

[Erika · Rating 5 out of 5]

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