Oh, Bother! Someone's Fibbing!

Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh's Helping Hands

by Betty G. Birney, Sue DiCicco (Illustrator)

This is a picture book in the appealing Pooh series that addresses -- and resolves -- simple childhood problems. In this sweet Hundred- Acre tale, the problem is fibbing. Piglet has broken Pooh's honey pot, but he's afraid to tell Pooh the truth. Young Piglet blames a heffalump as the culprit, but he learns in the end that not telling the truth feels terrible and one fib only leads to another.

Genres: Picture Books, Fiction, Childrens, Kids

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

From kindergarten through graduation, I attended school in Affton, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Then I graduated from Webster College (now Webster University) in Webster Groves, Missouri. Of course, I majored in English and kept on writing.

After working in advertising in St. Louis, Missouri and in Chicago, Illinois, I eventually moved to Southern California. First, I worked for Disneyland (fun job!) in the advertising department. The monorail whizzed past my window all day long. Then I worked at the Disney Studio in Burbank, where I had another fun job, writing and producing television and radio commercials and theatrical trailers (previews of coming attractions) for everything from re-releases of "Cinderella" and "Fantasia" to "Tex."

When the Disney Channel was started, I became a writer and story editor for WELCOME TO POOH CORNER. Since then, I've written more than 200 episodes of animated and live-action television programs including MADELINE, DOUG, BOBBY'S WORLD, DUMBO'S CIRCUS, THE PUZZLE PLACE, CAMP CANDY, LITTLE MOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, WHERE'S WALDO, FRAGGLE ROCK and ZOOBILEE ZOO. That's right, I write cartoons! I also wrote a number of award-winning afterschool specials and many interactive CD-ROM programs, including the award-winning "Berenstain Bears on their Own," "Richard Scarry's Busiest Neighborhood Ever," and "The Crayon Factory."

A made-for-television family movie I wrote, MARY CHRISTMAS, starring John Schneider, Cynthia Gibb and Tom Bosley, aired on the PAX network in 2002. It was the highest rated movie in PAX history and has aired each Christmas season since then.

I have been fortunate enough to win a Writer's Guild of America Award and three Humanitas Prizes (as well as two other nominations). In 2002, I won a Daytime Emmy Award for MADELINE, after two previous Emmy nominations. More recently, I received the Christopher Award for FRIENDSHIP ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY, many children's choice awards for THE WORLD ACCORDING TO HUMPHREY and was inducted into the Affton (MO) School District Hall of Fame.

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

Piglet breaks one of Pooh's honeypots and lies about it, saying a Heffalump broke into Pooh's house and stole it. Next thing you know the Pooh friends form a raging mob plotting Heffalump genocide.

Too dark and too true for these troubled times.

(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... )

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

One star for it being Pooh! Can't go wrong with classic Pooh.

One star for moral lesson.

One star for cute illustrations.

Minus one star for length. There are a LOT of words in this book.

Minus one star for more antiquated language. (Maybe also plus a star for that? Otherwise my kid might not hear the word "fib.")

Overall, not terrible. Also not one I look forward to reading as often as my kid requests.

[Jake]

mama loves how seriously I told her, at the end of the book, that I always tell the truth, and remember the time Aowyn said I hit Lorien? She was fibbing, because I would never do that to her because she's a nice baby. (mama's note: too true. Aowyn was telling stories that day, which was weeks ago, and Jake is still outraged by it.)

[Brooke Birchler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really cute book that could be read to children to help them understand that fibbing isn't a good thing. It could be read to a classroom if the teacher has had problems with students fibbing to each other or the teacher. Using this book as an introduction to a talk about fibbing could be very beneficial.

[Mr. Pe Mr. Pe]

this is a great book and i recommend it to everyone

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a story with an honesty moral, but to be honest it bothered me that Piglet was telling fibs. I just never thought Piglet would have that in him.

[Cws]

JE-Gol-B

[Ale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adorable!