Presents from Pooh is the fourth version of The Giving Bear! The new title was awarded, I suppose, to go with its substantially reworked and expanded text. The art is exactly the same, though since it is only 24 pages -- compared to the 29 in the original story -- several of the illustrations have been excluded.

The extra verbiage actually brings the story down a little since some of the new sentences simply describe what's happening at the pictures and a new ending moral is corny and heavy-handed. Original author Isabelle Gaines is credited as the author, but I wonder if she was actually offered the chance to do the rewrite or if the Random House editors put themselves in charge of that. I also wonder if Gaines and artist Josie Yee get compensated for all these variants.

(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/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... ) ( )