Safe at Home with Pooh

Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

This books teaches children to becareful of strangers in a charming and delightful way.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction

30 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is the award-winning author of more than sixty books for children, including DINOSAUR TRACKS, "a great choice for even the most discriminating dinophiles" (School Library Journal); DID DINOSAURS HAVE FEATHERS?, a Children's Book of the Month Club selection, described as "fascinating" by Kirkus Reviews; and DINOSAURS BIG AND SMALL, a 2003 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Best Book Award winner.

When she's not reading, researching, writing, or editing, Kathleen loves to spend her free time exploring, doing fieldwork, and preparing fossils for her local natural history museums.

Reviews

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Stranger Danger" public service announcements are important but rarely come off as anything but heavy-handed and didactic. Even when a favorite team of Pooh creators like Kathleen Zoehfeld and Robin Cuddy do their best, they can't help but fall into a listing of paranoid rules and scenes of dramatic false alarms.

(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... )

[C. (Don't blank click my reviews, comment please! · Rating 3 out of 5]

If literature, such as a children’s book, is too brief to discuss in terms of its story, I introduce its authors and illustrators, or highlight connections with its contents! Author Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld is from the Catskill Mountains, a range in northern New York state. She is not referred to as an archaeologist but is said to do fieldwork and to “prepare fossils” for natural history museums. A lot of her books are about dinosaurs and nature, which must be why she writes modern stories, using “Winnie-The-Pooh’s” forestland characters.

If one perused my earlier reviews, of other “Winnie-The-Pooh” books: I supply this franchise’s Canadian connection; in all but author and illustrator. “Winnie” was an Ontario black blear cub, rescued by a Manitoba veterinarian, en route to serve in World War I! I do not grasp how it was more convenient to take a black bear cub to England, instead of setting up care for him in Ontario or Manitoba. However, he was named “Winnipeg”: after mine and that veterinarian’s home city! Christopher Robin met him in the London Zoo. His Father drew characters to resemble Christopher’s teddy bears. That must be why this bear became yellow.

The wonderful illustrator, Robbin Cuddy, is also a New Yorker, who apparently lives in Florida now. I wonder how fickle permission is, to draw existing, famous characters but through these women, these books continue. “Safe At Home With Pooh” came out in 1998 and I gave it three stars. Safety, caution, and alertness are essential considerations for us all, which should indeed start in childhood. However, I wonder if any simplistic presentation is best, or if examples in discernment behove inclusion. It seems unwise to state that one’s home is the safest place in all circumstances and that people we know automatically warrant trust.

[Kimberly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I feel like this could have been better done. Perhaps meeting a nice stranger? Then meeting a bad one? I'm not sure how they should have done it, but heart was missing in this book.

The explanations to Pooh's good questions didn't make sense.

It's good for children to be safe around strangers, but I wish there was an actual story to illustrate it while not making them afraid of saying hello to anyone new.

[Dharia Scarab · Rating 3 out of 5]

My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out. For those living further a field, look in your own community, their may already be a similar program in place. And if not, you can always help start one.

http://spreadthewordnevada.org/

Myself, I go out on the weekends and
shop thrift store and bulk book lots to rescue books and donate them. Sometimes I'll find a book I remember reading when I was young and will read it again before passing it on.

I don't rate these books using my normal scale, instead I give most of them three stars. This isn't a Criticism of the book, simply my way of rating them as good for children.

[Katherine Salinas · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's nice to have familiar characters help kids learn valuable lessons. This book was pretty straight forward and overly cautious. When learning the lessons I'd say it is important to err on the side of caution.

[Brenda · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book "Safe Home With Pooh" by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld was a great book about the safety of what to do with a stranger.What I really love about this book was that it has its own rule of what to do if a stranger approach you. Also when Christopher Robin was explaining to Pooh and his other friends about strangers,but I just wish they explain more of what a stranger is,because they didn't in the story. They could of explain that a stranger is someone that they can cause harm to you and that you shouldn't follow stranger when you don't know them. 8/10 for this book.

[Chad Olson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pooh learns about not talking to strangers from Christopher Robbin

[Andressa Da Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pooh bear my love!!

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Safe At Home With Pooh
Zoehfeld, Kathleen Weidner
This book is using stills and drawings form the television series and movies to teach life lessons with Disney characters of the Winnie the pooh series. This story talks about how fears can make you act irrationally but home is always save. Pooh helps Piglet with his fears.

[Georgiana]

i like it