A collection of four titles in the Winnie the Pooh First Reader series, all written by Isabel Gaines.

Pooh's Best Friend - 3 stars
Pooh contemplates who is his best friend in the Hundred-Acre Wood. Of course, he does this by doing the circuit of friends one by one and asking them to define friendship. Tired structure, but sweet at heart. I was surprised that Christopher Robin was left out of the BFF competition, implying that his relationship with Pooh is something different what with the whole boy-owns-toy dynamic that the Toy Story films have been exploring for years.

Tigger's Family Tree - 2 stars
A middling adaptation of The Tigger Movie, a middling film in the Pooh canon, wherein Tigger tries to locate other Tiggers in his family tree despite his main catchphrase being, "The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is I'm the only one." And of course his real family has been with him right there in the Hundred-Acre Wood all along. Blah.

Rabbit Gets Lost - 3 stars
A much better adaptation of a section of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, a much, much better movie in the Pooh canon that is itself an adaptation of "Chapter 7: In Which Tigger Is Unbounced" from The House at Pooh Corner. Pooh's logic in how to stop going in circles in the wilderness is flawless in all three versions.

World's Best Mama - 2 stars
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.

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Contents: Pooh's Best Friend / written by Isabel Gaines, illustrated by Tim Jones -- Tigger's Family Tree / adapted by Isabel Gaines from The Tigger Movie, illustrated by Studio Orlando -- Rabbit Gets Lost / adapted by Isabel Gaines from Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too animated featurette -- World's Best Mama / written by Isabel Gaines, illustrated by Mark Marderosian and Fred Marvin

(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:
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