Pooh Helps Out

Disney's My Very First Winnie the Pooh

by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, A.A. Milne, Robbin Cuddy (Illustrator)

Poor Pooh doesn't have a thing to do until he decides to do a little something to help each of his friends, and it isn't long before Pooh finds himself lending a paw with cleaning, dusting, putting away, and gardening. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

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 3 out of 5]

Pooh sets out to do nothing one morning, but boredom and his inherent helpfulness soon has him doing chores with his friends all over the Hundred Acre Wood. I wonder if the story would have turned out the same if Pooh had access to a mobile phone or tablet?

Not quite a three-star story, but close enough to round up.


(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... )

[Mara Rhodes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about Pooh spending a day helping his friends with various tasks that they need done.

3 topic ideas:
Friendship (what good friends look like)
Responsibility
Cause and effect

[Kezlin]

It was sweet to see pooh try so hard to help everyone.

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another excellent library choice by kiddo. Love the lesson on helping others.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pooh Bear wakes up and is bored as there is nothing to do. So he goes to help Piglet, After helping him do dishes they both want to go help someone else. They go help Owl. This goes on throughout the book as each group goes onto a friends house to help with something. And in the end Rabbit cooks a thank you dinner out of the veggies the group helped pick out of the garden.

[Zoe Seevaratanam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked because Pooh learned that helping is beeter than doing nothing!

[Mollie *scoutrmom* · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute, but a bit preachy about helping others. The fantastic illustrations one expects from a Disney production.

Will be given to my grandchildren when I next see them.

[Nadia · Rating 2 out of 5]

I need to find the original Milne stories. The Disney versions are kinda weak-sauce, even if they have good messages in them.