Bill Langley

A fine adaptation of one of my favorite Pooh films, which in turn adapts two of my favorite chapters from Milne's original Pooh books. First, Pooh invents Pooh Sticks and discovers Eeyore floating down the stream after an unfortunate bounce. Then he scrambles to find a last-second birthday present for Eeyore.

The art and dialogue evoke the original film quite well. I just rewatched the film in June of last year, but I'm still tempted to give it another viewing after reading this.

FOR REFERENCE:

An adaptation by Teddy Slater and illustrators Bill Langley and John Kurtz of the 1983 Walt Disney short film, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, directed by Rick Reinert; story by Peter Young, Steve Hulett, and Tony L. Marino; based on the original works of A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard. The film specifically adapts Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter 6: In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents and The House at Pooh Corner Chapter 6: In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In.… (meer)

One of those books that seems to be written by someone who assumes kids are stupid and will just accept anything you tell them.

So Tigger has a toy airplane. But it really flies. And he can direct how it flies without any sort of mechanism or remote control. And it's large enough to carry a couple of small friends. And it can land and take off on a piece of land smaller in diameter than its own wingspan.

So, yeah, Tigger actually owns a MAGIC airplane.

And it becomes necessary to use all its magic when one friend gets in a little spot of trouble. And then it will never be seen again in the Hundred-Acre Wood.… (meer)