5-Minute Winnie the Pooh Stories

5 minutter i godnat

by Walt Disney Company, Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld (Contributor), Laura Driscoll (Contributor)

Join Winnie the Pooh and his friends on a birthday party, help Rabbit find his Good Mood, play with little Roo, and more!
With 12 stories featuring Winnie the Pooh and all of your favorite characters from the Hundred Acre Wood, each meant to be read aloud in five minutes, this padded storybook with beautiful illustrations is the perfect fit for bedtime, story time, or anytime!

Contents:
• Be Patient, Pooh / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Roo's New Babysitter / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• The Sleepover / Laura Driscoll, writer; Josie Yee, illustrator [from Laura Driscoll's Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories: A Charming Collection of Hundred-Acre Wood Tales]
• Eeyore's Good Day / Laura Driscoll, writer; Josie Yee, illustrator [from Laura Driscoll's Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories: A Charming Collection of Hundred-Acre Wood Tales]
• Tigger's Moving Day / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Pooh Welcomes Winter / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Scavenger Hunt / Megan Ilnittzki, adaptation writer; Studio Orlando, illustrators; based on the book Pooh's Scavenger Hunt by Isabel Gaines
• A Good Night's Sleep / Annie Auerbach, adaptation writer; based on the book Winnie the Pooh: A Good Night's Sleep
• Rabbit's Bad Mood / Katherine Quenot, writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy (attributed as Philippe L'Atelier Harchy), illustrator
• Why Take a Nap? / Katherine Quenot, writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy (attributed as Philippe L'Atelier Harchy), illustrator
• Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh / Bruce Talkington, adaptation writer; Carter Crocker, original teleplay writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Piglet's Night-Lights / K. Emily Hutta, original writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy, illustrator

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Short Stories, Fiction, Friendship, Animals, Classics

188 pages, Hardcover

Published August 29, 2017

About the author

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Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

This collection of short stories reprints and adapts a bunch of stories that I own in other collections or from their original, individual publication. In the spirit of recycling, I'll be cutting-and-pasting my original reviews when applicable.

I find it amusing that the editor of this collection felt it necessary to fiddle with every story from its original appearance, making minor changes in word order and word choice throughout, maybe to achieve a certain reading level or perhaps simply as a way to justify their existence? It's also funny when an illustration that was tiny in its first appearance is blown up here to fill half a page or more, showing all the warts the artist intended to be invisible at the smaller size.

Be Patient, Pooh! ~ 3 stars

Pooh is just adorable as he impatiently awaits his birthday party at suppertime. The story delivers a nice mix of humor and educational stuff like time telling, daily structure through mealtimes, and activities to do with friends.


Roo's New Babysitter ~ 3 stars

Frequently re-read with my daughter throughout her childhood, this amusing little story of role reversal still pleases us today.

I do have to wonder about Kanga's "shopping and supper" outing with the mysterious "Aunt Sadie," especially when she returns without a single bag or purchase. So many possibilities, the mind boggles. What does a kangaroo get up to on a girls' night out?


The Sleepover ~ 2 stars

Piglet's anxiety gets the best of him during a sleepover at Pooh's house, so Pooh enables him by moving the sleepover to Piglet's house. Ummmmm.

Originally published in the other Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories book by Laura Driscoll.


Eeyore's Good Day ~ 2 stars

Eeyore doesn't feel right with nothing to despair over, but Pooh's clumsiness soon enables his depression. Ummmmm.

Originally published in the other Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories book by Laura Driscoll.


Tigger's Moving Day ~ 3 stars

Tigger needs a new house with more bouncing room. Fortunately, unlike most places right now, the Hundred Acre Wood seems to have an inventory of empty and available residential properties. Tigger's friends help with the moving and their friendship and support make the new house feel like a home. Sweet.

Pooh Welcomes Winter ~ 3 stars

"Winter is coming," intoned Pooh grimly, unaware of the events in motion that would one day result in innocent little Piglet becoming the hardened assassin who would lay low the Night King of the Woozle Walkers with an astonishingly deft act of knife work.

But first Pooh will have to deal with a little bit of mistaken identity regarding the chubby and quiet white fellow who has appeared in the Hundred Acre Wood just as Pooh is expecting Winter's arrival and is planning a party in his honor. But he seems cold; best warm him by the fire!

This cute little tale is part of the My Very First Winnie the Pooh series, probably my favorite of the many Pooh series I bought and read to my daughter. Frequent contributor Kathleen W. Zoehfeld is probably my favorite Pooh author after Milne. Hers were the Pooh books my daughter wanted to read over and over again throughout her childhood, and considering the way my little college junior was chuckling as I read it to her yet again today, they still hold up for her too.

This version is abridged quite a bit but still holds up.


Scavenger Hunt ~ 2 stars

Christopher Robin sends the Pooh friends hunting for three concrete objects and one very sappy ending.

This is an adaptation of the original reader version, Pooh's Scavenger Hunt, by Isabel Gaines.


A Good Night’s Sleep ~ 2 stars

This is the only story in the whole book that I haven't read before in some other form, and unfortunately it's a bit dull. When Rabbit can't sleep due to birds singing outside his bedroom window, he invites himself to move in with Pooh, which somehow results in Pooh becoming his assistant gardener. Pooh can't take Rabbit's early hours and grueling workload, so he brainstorms with Piglet to figure out a way to get rid of the birds.


Rabbit's Bad Mood ~ 2 stars

Rabbit's titular bad mood is caused by his garden vegetables turning out poorly: the carrots are shrunken the lettuce is wilted, the "raddish [sic]" he just bit into is too hot and spicy, and the turnips never grew at all.

After imagining that Rabbit's bad mood is a storm behind his eyes to be calmed or a cloud over his head to be blown away, Piglet and Pooh fetch some friends to fix Rabbit's mood. Owl and Tigger quickly start gaslighting him, positing that Rabbit forgot to water or even plant the seeds. And when they have Rabbit on the ropes and starting to doubt himself, they switch stories to an excess of rain ruining the garden. That's the ticket!

My stand-alone copy of this story is part of a set of "My Very First Winnie the Pooh" books I ordered in special from Australia as they do not seem to have been published in the United States. The Australian version is credited to Kathleeen W. Zoehfeld, who wrote the majority of the "My Very First Winnie the Pooh" series. However, the verso page of this collection attributes the writing to Katherine Quenot, a French writer. So I'm unclear if Zoehfeld wrote the story and Quenot simply translated it into French as "Une Journée Avec Winnie l'Oursin: Coco Lapin est de mauvaise humeur," or if Quenot wrote the original story in French and Zoehfeld was part of the team that adapted it into English or just had her name slapped on the cover randomly by Australian editors. I don't really trust the attribution skills of the editors of this collection as they give a 2017 copyright for the story when the French edition seems to have an October 2002 publication date and the English version has a 2003 copyright. Also the art is credited to "Philippe L'Atelier Harchy," which seems to be a mistaken variation on the name of prolific Disney artist Atelier Philippe Harchy.

The art of the stand-alone book does seem to have been produced or manipulated at some point in France as Pooh lives under the name "M. Sanders" (for Monsieur Sanders) instead of the "Mr. Sanders" (for Mister Sanders) found in E. H. Shepard's illustrations. And apparently, the French artists, the American writer and the Australian editors do not know the difference between moles and gophers, as Gopher will attest below:


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The version of the story presented in this collection eliminates the "M. Sanders" label and the gopher picture. Also, the text is consistently different in word choice throughout from the Zoehfeld version, as if a third author stepped in to translate the script. I'm amused to think that Zoehfeld may have written the original script, then it was translated into French by Quenot, and then this book editor paid someone else for a new translation not knowing there was already an English version extant.

At least this version doesn't end with the previously unseen Eeyore suddenly showing up to share some irritating word salad insight.

But it's another Pooh story that's more interesting for what's going on behind-the-scenes.


Why Take a Nap? ~ 2 stars

Roo refuses to take a nap because FOMO! But his friends all assure him they will just be doing boring chores. And, gee willikers a good nap may just give Roo the energy he needs to win the big sack race later in the book.

Heavy-handed nap propaganda for parents whose tots just won't settle down.

As with "Rabbit's Bad Mood" above, I own a 2003 Australian version of this story under the title Nap Time for Roo which is attributed to Kathleen W. Zoehfeld. But this collection credits the story to Katherine Quenot and artist "Philippe L'Atelier Harchy." There is a French version entitled Petit Gourou n'aime pas la sieste in the "Une Journée Avec Winnie l'Oursin" series that was published in October 2002. Once again, the English version in this collection doesn't match the same word choice used throughout the Zoehfeld version, so I don't know who originated the story or produced this version.


Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh! ~ 2 stars

It's all pratfalls and misunderstandings in a story that isn't nearly as funny as it wants to be. Piglet is scared of Halloween, but ends up being braver than he thinks and saves it from being a Hallowasn't. I'm not a fan of the TV special upon which this is based either. Very meh.

This is an adaptation of the book by Bruce Talkington adapting the teleplay by Carter Crocker, so being twice removed, it's quite watered down.


Piglet's Night Lights ~ 2 stars

Piglet's fear of the dark causes him to fret over a camping trip, but he faces his fear as his Hundred-Acre pals spend the dark night helping him learn about all the many sources of light around him. Manages to be educational and tell a story, but the words and pictures didn't quite gel, with the text describing the pictures too many times or falling behind what the pictures reveal.


FOR REFERENCE:

Contents:
• Be Patient, Pooh / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Roo's New Babysitter / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• The Sleepover / Laura Driscoll, writer; Josie Yee, illustrator [from Laura Driscoll's [book:Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories|254183]]
• Eeyore's Good Day / Laura Driscoll, writer; Josie Yee, illustrator [from Laura Driscoll's [book:Winnie the Pooh 5-Minute Stories|254183]]
• Tigger's Moving Day / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Pooh Welcomes Winter / Kathleen W. Zoehfeld, writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Scavenger Hunt / Megan Ilnittzki, adaptation writer; Studio Orlando, illustrators; based on the book Pooh's Scavenger Hunt by Isabel Gaines
• A Good Night's Sleep / Annie Auerbach, adaptation writer; based on the book Winnie the Pooh: A Good Night's Sleep
• Rabbit's Bad Mood / Katherine Quenot, writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy (attributed as Philippe L'Atelier Harchy), illustrator
• Why Take a Nap? / Katherine Quenot, writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy (attributed as Philippe L'Atelier Harchy), illustrator
• Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh / Bruce Talkington, adaptation writer; Carter Crocker, original teleplay writer; Robbin Cuddy, illustrator
• Piglet's Night-Lights / K. Emily Hutta, original writer; Atelier Philippe Harchy, illustrator


(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... )

[James Hoffman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good stories for children. Gave different accents to every character, but hard to maintain who had which accent when stories had more than 4 characters.

[Abby Coombs · Rating 5 out of 5]

We read these to our daughter before bed. She loved them and so did we :)

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aye yai yai. The Ba-Ba. That is what we shall talk about here. That's what my 21 month old daughter calls a pacifier. And as we were taking that thing away we were also reading this book to sleep. One story a night. Until the final story.

The final story coincided with the night we took the ba-ba away for good. She screamed for 45 minutes before falling asleep from exhaustion. We made in through a page of the final story.

The next night my wife put her to bed and no tears, no screams - simple, peaceful, easy sleep. Sleep like a baby as the saying goes.

One night later, my turn. Lets finish the story, should go quick. Screaming, crying, for 20 minutes. We made in through one more page.

Finally tonight, the rest of the story...SPOILER - piglet figured out how to fall asleep without a night light. And I had no tears. Just easy sleep.

[Wendelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Hundred Acre Wood is like a particular imagining of the archetype of Eden before the Fall.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lily's Grandpa snagged this book off of Amazon and brought it over the last time he was here.

A lot of the stories are good. I'm a Pooh person in all his various incarnations. Although I don't remember the original Pooh stories and will probably read them to her later, the Disney-fied version is a good introduction to a little kiddo who's not even two yet.

Yesterday was a slog, though. She wanted to read it. A lot. I read all twelve of the stories to her in two sessions.

Favorites are probably "Roo's New Babysitter," in which Roo ends up "babysitting" Pooh instead of the other way around, "Pooh Welcomes Winter," in which the characters decide to throw a party for Winter (whom they believe to be a snowman they found), and "Rabbit's Bad Mood," in which Rabbit's garden is ruined, but his friends help him deal with the crisis.

Thought it was weird that in "Scavenger Hunt," apparently Christopher Robin was just... sitting there? All day? Waiting for them to come back? Kind of odd.

The illustrations in the book were actually done by a few different people if you look at the list in the front, but I didn't notice the differences on the first run-through. It's all good, though--vibrant colors and well-done drawings, although I did notice Owl changes color a few times depending on who is illustrating.

The book itself is of good quality. Printed on thick paper with one of those squishy hardcovers. Not sure what they are actually called, if anything, but I like the squish.

[Shilo Quetchenbach · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall this is a good collection of stories, excellent for calming excitable kids down before bed. The first and last stories have been my kid's favorite -- we've read them several times each now. A good chunk of the other stories he liked well enough but hasn't asked for again. Three of them he refuses to let me read to him for reasons knowable only to himself. If it weren't for the first and last stories I might be tempted to pass it on, but so long as he likes hearing those over and over it's a keeper.

[Asad Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

My nephew is always begging me to see my Winnie the Pooh funko pop so I figured I'd get him one as a gift and I saw this book as a recommendation. Obviously I had to buy it because if you haven't figured out, I'm a Winne the Pooh fan! LOL. So my nephew is getting two gifts for the holidays! But before I wrap it, I had to read the stories. Even though it's written for kids, it really invokes a sense of nostalgia and I quite love that feeling. I highly recommend this book to any Pooh fans of any age. I'm now considering getting a copy for myself and more stories of the sort!

[R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

These short stories follow common patterns for the Winnie the Pooh series with the usual antics and friends. The book starts with Pooh Bear's birthday and winds through several scenarios, including babysitting, nightmares, winter games, Tigger moving, cheering up Eeyore, Rabbit's garden, and even Halloween. Story titles in this book include the following:

Be Patient, Pooh
Roo's New Babysitter
The Sleepover
Eeyore's Good Day
Tigger's Moving Day
Pooh Welcomes Winter
A Good Night's Sleep
Rabbit's Bad Mood
Why Take a Nap?
Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh
Piglet's Night-Lights

[Lesebiene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es war mal wieder Zeit für Pooh Bear und dieses Buch hat uns jeden Abend in den Schlaf gebracht. Wir wollen dieses kleine Ritual unbedingt beibehalten, denn es ist wirklich schön, direkt vor dem Schlafen noch ein oder zwei kurze Geschichten zu lesen.
Das Buch kommt zwar definitiv nicht an die Originale ran (die müssen wir auch unbedingt nochmal lesen!), aber es sind trotzdem süße kleine Geschichten zum Einschlafen. 💛

[Cherrie Deavers · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very good bedtime book to read a story each night to little ones (5 minutes) or to read yourself. These are different stories from the usual ones that are about Winnie the Pooh and his friends. The stories are cute and the pictures are lovely. This is a nice,cushy hardback book that will look nice setting on the nightstand.

[Jodie · Rating 5 out of 5]

My all time favorite storybook characters in the perfect combination of stories to read at bedtime. What is not to love about this collection? I love the 5 minute story books, they are perfect for bedtime reading and the kiddos love them.

[Belita Pazos · Rating 2 out of 5]

De vez en cuando me gusta leer algún que otro libro para niños porque me recuerda a mi infancia. Y aunque los dibujos del libro son muy cuquis porque es Winnie. Ninguna de las historias tiene moraleja.Como pedagoga le doy un 1. No es un libro que compraría para mis hijos.

[Ashley Lennox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great compilation of stories!

[Al · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super cute selection of short stories that my niece loved having read to her

[Cherish Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

(4☆ Would recommend)
Winnie the Pooh is such a great children's classic. Having so many short stories in one book makes it a great bedtime book.

[Vince · Rating 3 out of 5]

Disney sweet but still pretty good at bedtime.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each story has a child-appropriate 'lesson,' but these are not written in the style or voice of the original Milne stories.

[Sara Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the happy stories that are just the right length for right before bed. A quick story a night that leads to happy dreams.

[Ernest Fleming · Rating 5 out of 5]

All these stories are such, fun! Lots of imagination!

[Spencer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read 11 out of 12 stories in one sitting! Was a hit with our 4 year old son!

[Sarah Bramlett · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son loved this book. He asked to read it for nearly a week straight.

[PAR · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 Stars! These are great short stories to read to my little daughter. Enjoy!