Pooh: The Grand and Wonderful Day

by Mary Packard, Darrell Baker (Illustrator)

Children have loved LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS for over 50 years. They have written their names inside each front cover and pored over the colorful pictures. Parents have shared Golden moments with their children, thanks to the happy hours spent with the books.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction

24 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ooh, a slight subversion of the usual Pooh trope wherein Pooh awakens with a vague notion and wanders the Hundred Acre Wood to consult his friends -- but everywhere he knocks, no on is home! Left in isolation, Pooh quickly spirals into paranoid thoughts, suspecting a heffalump and woozle invasion. Fortunately for the kiddies, the story reverts to form and ends with a party.

"They say it's your birthday. Well, it's my birthday too, yeah."

(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... )

[ameya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pooh has small brains.

[Danette · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's Pooh's birthday!

8/17/18 Read with Julia.
3/22/20 Read with Julia #covidreader
6/27/25 Read with Charlotte and Skylar

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Winnie the Pooh thinks something wonderful is going to happen today, but he can't figure out what... and none of his friends seem to be home for him to be able to ask them. His imagination gets the better of him and he starts to think maybe something awful will happen instead. When he seeks out Christopher Robin, though, he realizes the wonderful thing is actually his birthday party!

This was a great book for Lily because before she was born, a friend gave us little stuffed beanie Pooh and Piglet dolls for her, so she got to hold them while we read the book. We also found some Winnie the Pooh shorts to watch on YouTube.

Simple as it is, the book speaks to me too. Something about knocking on doors when no one is there feels like an apt metaphor for isolated pandemic life, along with Pooh's rumination on bad things that could happen. It felt good right now to read a story about something turning out all right in the end after all.

[Rachel Doran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who doesn't love a book about Winnie the Pooh. Golden books were my favorite growing up, they have the most colorful illustrations and the stories were always so detailed. The Grand and Wonderful Day is about Winnie the Pooh and how he cannot remember why the day is going to be grand. He heads to all his friends houses just to find that they are not there. He then begins to believe that maybe it will not be a grand day but a sad and gloomy day instead. He heads to Christopher Robbins house just to be surprised by a birthday party for Pooh! I love this story, and I think that many children would love it too. It is such a classic.

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[Tessa Wells · Rating 4 out of 5]

Winnie the Pooh is such a classic that so many people love. There is so many different books in the series of Winnie the Pooh, but this one especially made me laugh because of how forgetful Pooh is. Even though the whole book is a little frustrating and kind of feels like the story never progresses we cannot even get the slightest bit mad at Pooh because of how loving and cute he is.

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection of all the characters. Great little book.

[Stephen Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually forgot the same thing once.

Thumps up!

[Mars G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Winnie the Pooh! It is a great choice for story time.

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow I have never felt more like Pooh than when I read this book. I realize that it probably wasn't written as an allegory for anxiety, but holy crap is this exactly what happens in my brain sometimes. Thank goodness has a good support system (although Christopher Robin could be less dismissive).

[Sarah A · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a modern Disney version of Winnie the Pooh having a day when he wants to find his friends and share fun and joy with them but finding no one home. As he gets more and more sad and depressed and lonely, he suddenly comes across all of his friends together - holding a special surprise birthday party for him.
Not my favourite sort of story but a common childhood theme.

[Theresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Grand and Wonderful Day
Packard, Mary
cute early reader with great colors and learning to appreciate what is there

[Sharon · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gift from Abuela for Christmas, the boys love the whole set.

[Tommy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A gift from Abuela for Christmas, the boys love the whole set.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another cute Winnie-the-Pooh story. Not as good as the original stories, of course. However, they still all have good messages for little children.

[Kimberly · Rating 4 out of 5]

So cute. Gotta love the Hundred Acre Wood and Pooh.

[Marilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ryan said: The friends were making a party for Pooh. I love the cakes. It was honey flavored. See the honey and pink roses and his name POOH.

[Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good classic Pooh Bear story.