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Winnie the Pooh CD Storybook

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This beautifully presented Disney treasury features 4 stories, complete with a read-along CD. Choose from four tales of Winnie the Pooh! Includes:
- Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
- Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
- Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

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Note: The decision was made to consolidate all Disney publications under the name Walt Disney Company. This profile is for Walt Disney, the characters he created, and the company he founded. Any questions, please ask in the Librarian's Group.

Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation he co-founded, now known as The Walt Disney Company, today has annual revenues of approximately U.S. $35 billion.

Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most famous fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, a character for which Disney himself was the original voice. He has been awarded four honorary Academy Awards and has won twenty-two competitive Academy Awards out of fifty-nine nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual. He also won seven Emmy Awards. He is the namesake for Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney, Disneyland Paris, and Disneyland Hong Kong.

Disney died of lung cancer in Burbank, California, on December 15, 1966. The following year, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.

The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its current name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has created new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it typically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best known for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, today one of the largest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and owns and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. On January 23, 2006, it was announced that Disney would purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The deal was finalized on May 5. On December 31, 2009, Disney Company acquired the Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4.24 billion. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

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June 28, 2022
A collection of straightforward but serviceable adaptations of the original four Winnie the Pooh animated short films with some nursery rhyme interstitials that have been modified slightly to include the names of Pooh characters.

In coordination with reading this book I rewatched The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which combines the first three short films into one feature film through the addition of some short transition scenes and an extra chapter at the end where Christopher Robin tries to tell Pooh that a day is coming when he might outgrow his teddy bear. It's a 5-star movie for me.

The fourth animated short, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore is included as a bonus feature on my DVD of the movie. I had to dig the disk out because Disney+ does not have have it available to stream, which brings to mind an Eeyore quote, "Pathetic . . . That's what it is. Pathetic." The donkey gets no respect. I guess that's fitting for a story where he is bullied by Tigger and everyone else forgets his birthday.

My edition of this Winnie the Pooh DC Storybook has no creator credits, but in reading it this week with all my other adaptations I recognized that it uses the same text from the Pooh adaptations in the Disney Read-Along series that are written and/or edited by Margaret Ann Hughes. The CD cleverly integrated into the cover has the same audio from that series, with Laurie Main narrating and Jim Cummings providing the voice of Winnie the Pooh. But for some reason the illustrations originally produced under the art direction of Paul Wenzel have been discarded in favor of new but perfectly suitable illustrations by what looks like several different anonymous artists working in the Disney style.

FOR REFERENCE:
Collects text from:
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too Read-along
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February 13, 2019
I read this to my two children (ages 4.5 and 2.5) and they both loved it. We haven't used the CD yet, but I really enjoying seeing my daughter and son so interested in Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Eyore, and all the other characters.
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