Oh, Bother! Someone's Jealous!

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

by Betty G. Birney

When Roo is able to bounce up the hill in two less bounces than Tigger, Tigger decides not play any longer

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

26 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

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]

Tigger introduces a new bouncing game but becomes sulky when it turns out someone else is better at it. His friends have to massage his ego and find something else he's good at to feed his brittle ego. I can't decide if its snowflake maintenance or diva duty.

Update: I'm 50 books into the Pooh Project and a visual guesstimate says I'm not even a quarter of the way through all the books on the bookshelf yet. Onward!

(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... )

[Kaotic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tigger was always my favorite after Pooh growing up.

[Stephen Snyder · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that will help children find a way to deal with the difficult emotion of jealousy.

[Sophie Ackerman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a classic! Teaches a great lesson on how to communicate feelings.

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book because even as a kid you could tell mostly what was going on in the story with the very well-done illustrations.

[Zaidee · Rating 4 out of 5]

good one about jealousy

[Audrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

A delightful story teaching children that friendship is more important than jealousy.