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Winnie the Pooh First Readers #21
World's Best Mama
Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and Roo plan a surprise Mothers' Day party for Kanga, but Roo has forgotten to get her a present.
40 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2000
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May 7, 2022
A saccharine little tale of Mother's Day wherein everyone in the Hundred-Acre Wood gets a present for Kanga except Roo, who forgot. But Kanga makes it okay with a little motherly love.
I find World's Best Mama more interesting as another example of Disney recycling. There is a 2002 abridged and simplified reader version adapted from this book by it's original author, Isabel Gaines, entitled I Love You, Mama in the "Step Into Reading" series. Both versions use the exact same illustrations by Mark Marderosian and Fred Marvin, only the text and title have changed. Curiously that new version has been published in the "Step into Reading" series as both Step 1 and Step 2. I believe the series changed the scale on its reading levels at some point, converting their Super Early and Early levels to Step 1 and moving the rest of the levels up a notch.
I don't own a copy of World's Best Mama, but I read a digital copy in order to compare it to I Love You, Mama! as part of my Pooh Project.
(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... )
I find World's Best Mama more interesting as another example of Disney recycling. There is a 2002 abridged and simplified reader version adapted from this book by it's original author, Isabel Gaines, entitled I Love You, Mama in the "Step Into Reading" series. Both versions use the exact same illustrations by Mark Marderosian and Fred Marvin, only the text and title have changed. Curiously that new version has been published in the "Step into Reading" series as both Step 1 and Step 2. I believe the series changed the scale on its reading levels at some point, converting their Super Early and Early levels to Step 1 and moving the rest of the levels up a notch.
I don't own a copy of World's Best Mama, but I read a digital copy in order to compare it to I Love You, Mama! as part of my Pooh Project.
(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... )
January 11, 2017
What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than enjoying this special Winnie The Pooh book with your little one! I sat and read it out loud to my 3 year old granddaughter and how special was that! She enjoyed it as the characters are some of her favorite and the storyline itself was 'childish' but yet has such great meaning. Everyone in the hundred acre wood wants to help Kanga feel as special as she is but when Roo wakes up the morning of the party he's forgotten to get her a gift. Feeling all bad about it in the end Kanga makes him feel as special as he is. That having a physical gift isn't always necessary but the love we exchange is gift enough.
September 27, 2011
Our six-week story time theme is "Hundred Acre Adventures" inspired by Milne's "World of Pooh". Mother's Day is coming up so a week with Kanga and Roo seemed appropriate. The story selections feature kangaroos or pockets or mothers or some combination of the three. We used this book to introduce the theme.
Our suggestions:
Do not read this book to the group. Simply thumb through the pages looking for all the friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. Ask “Who’s this?” and let the children call out the names. Ask what Kanga has on her tummy (a pouch or pocket).
Our suggestions:
Do not read this book to the group. Simply thumb through the pages looking for all the friends in the Hundred Acre Woods. Ask “Who’s this?” and let the children call out the names. Ask what Kanga has on her tummy (a pouch or pocket).
April 2, 2012
The better of the childhood series I recently dug up.
Roo is sad that he forgot to give his mom, Kanga, a present for Mother's Day, while all of Roo's friends have given Kanga a gift.
This is a better kids book- not much of a review I can do on this one, but it's good for kids.
Roo is sad that he forgot to give his mom, Kanga, a present for Mother's Day, while all of Roo's friends have given Kanga a gift.
This is a better kids book- not much of a review I can do on this one, but it's good for kids.
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