Today is Winnie the Pooh’s 100th birthday

“O Bother, where art thou?”

–Winnie-the-Pooh plays hide and seek with Quakers.

It bothered me that the Disnified version of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh characters didn’t look like E. H. Shepard’s original drawings, until I saw the stuffed animals they were based on, which Shepard’s illustrations don’t strongly resemble, either.

And IMHO, the 2011 movie was a welcome return to the spirit of those 60s-70s films.

And Pixar.

I bought ‘original Pooh’ crib sheet/crib bumpers/baby blanket for my daughter decades ago, and read her the stories when she got older. The Pooh and Piglet hunting the Hefferlump made her laugh harder than before or after any other storytime :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: . We still love Pooh. (not the dumbed-down Disney abominations).