(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Very nice.Ĭontents: Exposition - Acknowledgments - Autumn: in which Pooh and Piglet prepare to meet a Dragon / Paul Bright - Winter: in which Penguin arrives in the Forest / Brian Sibley - Spring: in which Eeyore suspects Another Donkey is after his thistles / Jeanne Willis - Summer: in which Pooh dreams of the Sauce of the Nile / Kate Saunders - Afterword / Paul Bright, Brian Sibley, Jeanne Willis, Kate Saunders Not a lot happens as the trail leads up to the inevitable book-closing party, but the dialogue is snappy and reminiscent of Milne, and Kanga gets to shine more than usual. Summer: in which Pooh dreams of the Sauce of the Nile / Kate SaundersĪn amusing expotition has Pooh and friends trying to find find the headwaters of the stream that runs through the Hundred-Acre Wood. Rabbit's friends and relations show up, but get treated as second-class citizens when it comes time to sit for tea and they are consigned to chat amongst themselves under the table, beneath the notice of the main characters. Spring: in which Eeyore suspects Another Donkey is after his thistles / Jeanne WillisĪ very predictable and labored story about paranoia, reflections and mistaken identity.

I genuinely fear for Penguin's fate and wonder if it involves something that might occur in Sid's room in the first Toy Story movie. And then toward the end, the tone gets very dark as Penguin disappears and Christopher Robin gets ominously vague as to where he went or if he'll return. First, Owl gets all prejudiced and downright enraged by the non-flying bird and takes his speciesist ass right out of the story in a huff without redemption or comeuppance. Winter: in which Penguin arrives in the Forest / Brian Sibleyīased on an actual photo of Milne, Christopher Robin and the original Winnie-the-Pooh stuffed animal looking at a penguin doll, this story is a bit macabre. It's fluff, but a cute little joke about uncomfortable pauses actually felt like something Milne would write. Meanwhile, Eeyore is desperate to keep credit for finding a shiny thing buried in the ground. In his absence, Piglet gets all worked up that a dragon is coming to the Hundred-Acre Wood and pulls everyone else into his fear spiral. Shepard.Īutumn: in which Pooh and Piglet prepare to meet a Dragon / Paul BrightĬhristopher Robin cannot be disturbed as he prepares for his role in the school play as St.

Milne around some nice illustrations in the style of E. Some pretty decent writers do passable impressions of A.

Winnie the Pooh by Paul Bright