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Winnie the Pooh First Readers #9
A Winnie the Pooh First Reader Book #9 School Market Edition: Giving Bear
Book by Gaines, Isabel
40 pages, Hardcover
First published August 25, 1998
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June 14, 2022
I read this book to my daughter many, many times in several different versions so it has great sentimental value even if I dislike the way Pooh's friends peer pressure him into giving away spare honey pots for a charity drive. From one hoarder to another Pooh, I feel your pain.
This seems to be the original version of The Giving Bear, but I have five more. Excepting the original Milne books, I am not aware of any original Pooh storybook that has more reprints, adaptations, and abridged or expanded versions.
I read the first alternate version back in February of this year when the Pooh Project was just getting under way. Pooh, The Giving Bear is an adaptation by Cassandra Case in the My Very First Winnie the Pooh picture book series. It uses the same pictures but adds a bunch of words to every sentence throughout the book, improving the story slightly.
The reader version: "Hello, Piglet," answered Pooh. "What's in your wagon?"
The picture book version: "Hello, little Piglet," said Pooh when he saw his friend. "What's all that you have there in your wagon. Is it for me?"
I have the next four versions queued up to read over the next few days. Let's give until it hurts.
Dalmatian Press mini edition: The Giving Bear
Jellybean Books storybook rewrite: Presents from Pooh
Illustrations repurposed into a brand new story: Pooh's Honey Hunt
A collected reprint: Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Easy-to-Read Stories
(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... )
This seems to be the original version of The Giving Bear, but I have five more. Excepting the original Milne books, I am not aware of any original Pooh storybook that has more reprints, adaptations, and abridged or expanded versions.
I read the first alternate version back in February of this year when the Pooh Project was just getting under way. Pooh, The Giving Bear is an adaptation by Cassandra Case in the My Very First Winnie the Pooh picture book series. It uses the same pictures but adds a bunch of words to every sentence throughout the book, improving the story slightly.
The reader version: "Hello, Piglet," answered Pooh. "What's in your wagon?"
The picture book version: "Hello, little Piglet," said Pooh when he saw his friend. "What's all that you have there in your wagon. Is it for me?"
I have the next four versions queued up to read over the next few days. Let's give until it hurts.
Dalmatian Press mini edition: The Giving Bear
Jellybean Books storybook rewrite: Presents from Pooh
Illustrations repurposed into a brand new story: Pooh's Honey Hunt
A collected reprint: Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Easy-to-Read Stories
(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... )
June 12, 2022
It’s Giving Bear Week! As far as I can tell, The Giving Bear by Isabel Gaines and Josie Yee has been reprinted, reworked, retold, and collected by Disney more than any work outside of Milne’s original tales and the many movies. We’re halfway through examining all the iterations I have in my collection. (See also: Pooh, The Giving Bear.)
This Dalmatian Press edition is a small hardcover book, 3 1/4" wide x 4 1/2" high, with an ISBN of 1-57759-467-3 that the publisher also used on an identically sized adaptation of The Tigger Movie. There is a slight variation in the text from the original edition and some of the illustrations are excluded. It's funny that most of the text changes occur in the first third and last page, like the editor got rushed in the middle and stopped fiddling around in order to get it done.
The small size of the book delighted my daughter, and this is probably the version we read the most when she was growing up. It has a few scribbles, a sun-faded cover, and a little missing chunk out of the last page, but has held up well despite the hours logged on it over the last two decades. Not bad for a grocery store impulse purchase.
ORIGINAL EDITION REVIEW:
I read this book to my daughter many, many times in several different versions so it has great sentimental value even if I dislike the way Pooh's friends peer pressure him into giving away spare honey pots for a charity drive. From one hoarder to another Pooh, I feel your pain.
This seems to be the original version of The Giving Bear, but I have five more. Excepting the original Milne books, I am not aware of any original Pooh storybook that has more reprints, adaptations, and abridged or expanded versions.
I read the first alternate version back in February of this year when the Pooh Project was just getting under way. Pooh, the Giving Bear is an adaptation in the My Very First Winnie the Pooh picture book series. It uses the same pictures but adds a bunch of words to every sentence throughout the book, improving the story slightly.
The reader version: "Hello, Piglet," answered Pooh. "What's in your wagon?"
The picture book version: "Hello, little Piglet," said Pooh when he saw his friend. "What's all that you have there in your wagon. Is it for me?"
I have the next four versions queued up to read over the next few days. Let's give until it hurts.
(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... )
This Dalmatian Press edition is a small hardcover book, 3 1/4" wide x 4 1/2" high, with an ISBN of 1-57759-467-3 that the publisher also used on an identically sized adaptation of The Tigger Movie. There is a slight variation in the text from the original edition and some of the illustrations are excluded. It's funny that most of the text changes occur in the first third and last page, like the editor got rushed in the middle and stopped fiddling around in order to get it done.
The small size of the book delighted my daughter, and this is probably the version we read the most when she was growing up. It has a few scribbles, a sun-faded cover, and a little missing chunk out of the last page, but has held up well despite the hours logged on it over the last two decades. Not bad for a grocery store impulse purchase.
ORIGINAL EDITION REVIEW:
I read this book to my daughter many, many times in several different versions so it has great sentimental value even if I dislike the way Pooh's friends peer pressure him into giving away spare honey pots for a charity drive. From one hoarder to another Pooh, I feel your pain.
This seems to be the original version of The Giving Bear, but I have five more. Excepting the original Milne books, I am not aware of any original Pooh storybook that has more reprints, adaptations, and abridged or expanded versions.
I read the first alternate version back in February of this year when the Pooh Project was just getting under way. Pooh, the Giving Bear is an adaptation in the My Very First Winnie the Pooh picture book series. It uses the same pictures but adds a bunch of words to every sentence throughout the book, improving the story slightly.
The reader version: "Hello, Piglet," answered Pooh. "What's in your wagon?"
The picture book version: "Hello, little Piglet," said Pooh when he saw his friend. "What's all that you have there in your wagon. Is it for me?"
I have the next four versions queued up to read over the next few days. Let's give until it hurts.
(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... )
November 27, 2018
It takes Christopher Robin nearly the entire book to convince Pooh that it's a good idea to share half of his stored honeypots. The message about charity and sharing is more complicated than necessary.
February 21, 2016
this was a neat storybook to help teach little guys the importance (and fun) it is to give away things they no longer play with. The gang are all going through their home and taking stuff to Christopher Robin so he can turn it on for others. Pooh Bear doesn't think he has anything until his friends help him to see he has more than he thinks and the importance of sharing.
September 25, 2008
lol! its proboly not htat good now that i'm 12 years old!!
October 19, 2015
It was a very cute story that E and I loved reading together.
April 21, 2017
Pooh doesn't want to add anything to the pile of stuff that Piglet and Tigger are giving away until Christopher Robin reminds him of how good he will feel to share.
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