The Book of Pooh
{{short description|US children's TV series}}
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{{Infobox television
| image = The Book of Pooh logo.png
| genre = Adventure
Children
Puppetry
| runtime = 22 minutes
| producer =
| executive_producer = Mitchell Kriegman
| developer = Mitchell Kriegman
| creator = Mitchell Kriegman
| based_on = {{Based on|Winnie-the-Pooh|A. A. Milne}}
| director = Mitchell Kriegman
Dean Gordon
Jon Ludwig
Bruce Logan
Tom Guaddarrama
| writer =
| narrated = Roger L. Jackson
| voices = Jim Cummings
John Fiedler
Ken Sansom
Peter Cullen
Andre Stojka
Kath Soucie
Nikita Hopkins
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
| composer = Brian Woodbury
Julian Harris
Sean Altman
| company = Shadow Projects
| opentheme = "Everyone Knows He's Winnie the Pooh", written by Brian Woodbury
| endtheme = "Goodbye for Now", written by Brian Woodbury and Mitchell Kriegman
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 2
| num_episodes = 51
| list_episodes =
| network = Playhouse Disney (Disney Channel)
| first_aired = {{Start date|2001|1|22}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2003|7|8}}
| related = Bear in the Big Blue House
}}
The Book of Pooh is an American preschool educational children's television series that aired on the Playhouse Disney block on the Disney Channel. It is the third television series to feature the characters from the Disney franchise based on A. A. Milne's works; the other two were the live action Welcome to Pooh Corner (to which this series bears some resemblance) and the animated The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which ran from 1988 to 1991. It premiered on January 22, 2001 and completed its run on July 8, 2003. The show was produced by Shadow Projects.
Overview
The series takes place after the events of Milne's original stories since his son Christopher Robin is clearly an 11 year old. The series departs from many of the established facts of Milne's books. For example, Tigger resides in the Hundred Acre Wood from the start, and Kanga and Roo are later introduced as newcomers. Neither Christopher nor his mother speak with an English accent, such is the case in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh where Christopher has an American accent. Kessie, the bluebird from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episodes "Find Her, Keep Her" and "A Bird in the Hand", returns as a main character in this series.
Each show begins entering Christopher Robin's bedroom and hearing his mother say "Christopher, time for school." Christopher Robin answers "Okay, mom!", closes his book, grabs his backpack, and leaves. This is where the book with Pooh and his friends in it opens and the theme song begins. The show can be viewed as non-canonical in other ways. For example, Tigger can climb up—but more importantly climb down from trees and Christopher Robin and his mother's faces are never shown. Plus, Rabbit lives in a tree, as opposed to living in a burrow in other adaptations.
Cast
The characters in the show regularly sing and dance in ways that enhance the story being told. Many of the episodes do not have much basis in the original stories by A.A. Milne besides the characters.
The production design of the show was done by Chris Renaud, who would later become the co-director of the 2010 film Despicable Me.
The characters who appear regularly and the actors who voice them are:
- Winnie the Pooh and Tigger: Jim Cummings
- Piglet: John Fiedler (speaking voice)/Jeff Bennett (singing voice)
- Rabbit: Ken Sansom
- Eeyore: Peter Cullen
- Owl: Andre Stojka
- Kessie: Stephanie D'Abruzzo
- Kanga: Kath Soucie
- Roo: Nikita Hopkins
- Christopher Robin: Paul Tiesler
- Christopher Robin's Mother: Vicki Kenderes Eibner
- Mr. Narrator: Roger L. Jackson
The show's versions of Tigger and Pooh later made an appearance in a music video by the We Are Family foundation.
Puppeteers
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- Heather Asch
- Peter Baird
- Jennifer Barnhart - Kanga
- Carol Binion
- Ron Binion
- Matthew Brooks
- Tyler Bunch - Tigger
- Todd Coyle
- Stephanie D'Abruzzo - Kessie
- Sophie Doyle
- Vicki Kenderes-Eibner
- Jodi Eichelberger
- Eric Engelhardt
- David Matthew Feldman
- Chris Fields
- John C. Fields
- Preston Foreder
- James Godwin
- B.J. Guyer
- Robin Howard
- Eric Jacobson - Piglet
- Liz Joyce
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- Jim Kroupa
- Tim Lagasse
- Matthew Lavin
- Peter Linz - Winnie the Pooh
- Jon Ludwig
- Rick Lyon
- Lara MacLean - Roo
- Noel MacNeal - Rabbit
- Amanda Maddock
- David Martin
- Cathy McCullough
- Paul McGinnis - Eeyore
- Anney McKilligan
- John Pavlik
- Barbara Pollitt
- John Tartaglia
- Robin Walsh
- Dan Weissbrodt
- Steve Widerman
- Alice Dinnean-Vernon
- Victor Yerrid - Owl
- Bryant Young
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=Style of puppetry=
The style of puppetry is based on Japanese bunraku puppetry, and that — along with the cut-out-styled backgrounds — gives the show the look of a pop-up book, hence "The Book of Pooh". It was the first use of the Shadowmation process developed by creator Mitchell Kriegman which was later used in the PBS series It's a Big Big World.
Main themes
- "Everyone Knows He's Winnie the Pooh" (opening theme) - Brian Woodbury
- "Goodbye for Now" (closing theme) - Brian Woodbury and Mitchell Kriegman
Episodes
=Series overview=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan="2" rowspan="2"|Season !rowspan="2"|Episodes !colspan="2"|Originally aired |
| First aired
!Last aired |
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| style="background: #F9CF00;"|
|1 |26 |{{Start date|2001|1|22}} |{{End date|2002|4|3}} |
| style="background: #2950BB;"|
|2 |25 |{{Start date|2001|7|14}} |{{End date|2003|7|8}} |
=Season 1 (2001–02)=
{{Episode table |background=#F9CF00 |overall=8 |season=8 |title=25 |writer= |director= |airdate=20 |prodcode=10 |episodes=
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|EpisodeNumber2 = 1
|Title = Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh”
”Double Time
|DirectedBy = Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy = Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|22}}
|ProdCode = 101
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh attempts to grant everyone's wishes as The Great Pooh-Dini.
Rabbit thinks he has to do double time after Pooh has X-ed his calendar to the next day.
Songs: "Your Best Wishes" by Pooh and Piglet; and "On the Double" by Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|EpisodeNumber2 = 2
|Title = Are You Me?”
”Rabbit's Happy Birthday Party
|DirectedBy = Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy = Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|23}}
|ProdCode = 102
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh receives a note from someone called "Me" and tries to figure out who sent it.
Pooh and Piglet prepare for Rabbit's birthday party but get lost on the way to his house and end up in Scary Woods.
Songs: "Who Is Me?" by Pooh; and "Think, Think, Think" by Pooh and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|EpisodeNumber2=3
|Title = Circumference = Pirates 'Arrre' Squared”
”Pooh's to Do
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|24}}
|ProdCode=103
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh and his friends become pirates and think their stories are no longer interesting with Christopher Robin.
Pooh is late for Rabbit's meeting, so Rabbit devises a schedule for him.
Songs: "A Pirate Has Got to Have Arrr" by Tigger, Rabbit, Kessie, Pooh, and Piglet; and “A Day in the Life of a Pooh" by Pooh and the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|EpisodeNumber2=4
|Title = Pigletry”
”Dinosnores
|DirectedBy=Bruce Logan
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|25}}
|ProdCode=104
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Piglet tries reading a poem he wrote, but his friends keep making changes to it.
Owl reads a book about dinosaurs to the gang and they then go to search for a dinosaur, or "dinosnore," as they call it.
Songs: "What Piglets Are" by Piglet; and "Dinosnores" (one of a few songs not sung by the cast).
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|EpisodeNumber2=5
|Title = My Gloomy Valentine”
”Mr. Narrator
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|26}}
|ProdCode=108
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Everyone has a Valentine except Eeyore, so Pooh and his friends try to get their gloomy friend a Valentine gift.
There's no story today in The Book of Pooh! Mr. Narrator tries making up a story of his own to compromise, but he gets the characters' personalities all mixed up.
Songs: "Everyone Wants a Valentine" by the cast [sans Eeyore]; and "That's What We Do" by the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|EpisodeNumber2=6
|Title = Whooo Dunnit”
”Biglet
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|27}}
|ProdCode=106
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = One of Pooh’s honey jars goes missing and mystery-loving Owl decides to take on the case and interrogates everyone.
Piglet is sick of being small and wishes to be big.
Songs: "We've Got a Mystery on Our Hands" by Owl, Pooh and Piglet; and "If I Could Be Big" by Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|EpisodeNumber2=7
|Title = I Could Have Laughed All Night”
”X Spots the Mark
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|28}}
|ProdCode=107
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = When Kessie says she thinks Tigger has a funny laugh, Tigger thinks that Kessie is teasing him so he decides to never laugh again.
The gang goes for a treasure hunt for one of Owl's relatives' treasures which is buried in the Hundred Acre Wood. They try to find the X that marks the spot before they can find the treasure.
Songs: "Isn't That Funny?" by Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore and Tigger; and "Find the X" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|EpisodeNumber2=8
|Title = I Came, I Sowed, I Conked It”
”I Get a Cake Out of You
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|29}}
|ProdCode=105
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Tigger accidentally messes up the signs in Rabbit's garden when he bounces Piglet and tries to fix them. But then the wrong plants begin growing at the wrong signs.
The gang decides to celebrate reaching page 100 of the book by baking a cake. However, nobody listens completely to Owl’s instructions.
Songs: "I Watch for Signs" by Rabbit; and "We're Making a Cake" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|EpisodeNumber2=9
|Title = The Vegetable of Contents”
”A Welcome to Beat the Band With
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|30}}
|ProdCode=109
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Rabbit is unable to tend to his garden due to his physical condition, so he calls upon Pooh and Piglet to do the work for him.
Rabbit recruits his friends to perform as a band to welcome Kessie back to the Hundred Acre Wood but becomes too obsessed with a “perfect” performance.
Songs: "Keep it Simple" By Pooh and Rabbit; and "One Rabbit Band" by Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|EpisodeNumber2=10
|Title = Owl's Book”
”Tigger's Autobiography
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jonathan Greenberg
Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|31}}
|ProdCode=110
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Tigger think they've accidentally taken all the words out of one of Owl's books and decide to rewrite it themselves - with mixed results.
Tigger wants to write the story of his life. (This story is also entitled “The Autobiography of Tigger”.)
Songs: "The Best Book Ever" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit; and "The Story of Tigger" by Tigger, Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 11
|EpisodeNumber2=11
|Title = You Can Lead Eeyore to Books”
”The Spice of Life
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jonathan Greenberg
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|12}}
|ProdCode=111
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Everyone's got a book at the library except Eeyore, who will help Eeyore pick out a book for him?
The bees have gone on vacation, leaving no honey for Pooh. Can his friends find a way to help Pooh eat?
Songs: "Have You Got a Book for Me?" by Eeyore, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Owl; and "Give it a Try" by Piglet, Rabbit and Tigger.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 12
|EpisodeNumber2=12
|Title = Mr. Narrator”
”Honey Glazed Hamlet
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mitchell Kriegman
Mitchell Kriegman and Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|19}}
|ProdCode=112
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = There's no story today in The Book of Pooh! Mr. Narrator tries making up a story of his own to compromise, but he gets the characters' personalities all mixed up. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Owl is hit with nostalgia when he rediscovers his old Shakespeare book. Pooh and the gang try to "cure Owl of his nostalgia" and make him happy again.
Songs: "That's What We Do" by the cast; and "The Play's the Thing" by the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 13
|EpisodeNumber2=13
|Title = Bee-Friended”
”The Nightmare
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Mitchell Kriegman and Andy Yerkes
Jonathan Greenberg
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|26}}
|ProdCode=113
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = A bee gets lost, so Pooh and Piglet try to help it find its way back home.
Piglet recruits his friends to help him stop having nightmares.
Songs: "On Your Way Back Home" by Pooh, Piglet and Bee; and "The Nightmare Wranglers" by Pooh and Tigger.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 14
|EpisodeNumber2=14
|Title = A Win Who Won Situation”
”Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|2}}
|ProdCode=114
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Tigger and Rabbit compete to see who's faster.
Pooh attempts to grant everyone's wishes as The Great Pooh-Dini. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Songs: "Point of Me/Point of You" by the cast [sans Kessie]; and "Your Best Wishes" by Pooh and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 15
|EpisodeNumber2=15
|Title = Biglet”
”Home Very Sweet Home
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|9}}
|ProdCode=115
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Piglet is sick of being small and wishes to be big. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Pooh's scheme to steal honey results in a hive full of angry bees in his house.
Songs: "If I Could Be Big" by Piglet; and "Queen of the Bees" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 16
|EpisodeNumber2=16
|Title = Don Pooh-Xote”
”Beastly Burden
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|16}}
|ProdCode=116
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh and Piglet role play their own spin on the classic tale of Don Quixote and search for the Land "Bee-yond".
Eeyore feels like he lacks a purpose, so his friends set out to figure out what Eeyores do best.
Songs: "That Sweet Thing You Are Seeking" by Pooh and Piglet; and "Carry On" by Eeyore, Pooh and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 17
|EpisodeNumber2=17
|Title = It's a Bird? Yes!”
”A Breezy Little Story
|DirectedBy=Jon Ludwig
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|23}}
|ProdCode=117
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Kessie's debut as a superhero proves that heroes don't just fly around looking cool.
Piglet and Tigger attempt to construct a kite without the instructions on a breezy day in the woods.
Songs: "The Plumed Protector" by Kessie; and "Up, Up and Away".
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 18
|EpisodeNumber2=18
|Title = The Small Wonders”
”Are You Me?
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Chris Hoey
Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|30}}
|ProdCode=118
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Kessie and Piglet perform in a talent show.
Pooh receives a note from someone called "Me" and tries to figure out who sent it. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Songs: "The Bluebird Song" by Piglet, Kessie and the cast; and "Who Is Me?" by Pooh.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 19
|EpisodeNumber2=19
|Title = Night of the Brussels Sprout”
”I Could Have Laughed All Night
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|7}}
|ProdCode=119
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = An unidentified object lands in Rabbit's garden.
When Kessie says she thinks Tigger has a funny laugh, Tigger thinks that Kessie is teasing him so he decides to never laugh again. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Songs: "The Green Thing" by Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit and Eeyore; and "Isn't That Funny?" by Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore and Tigger.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 20
|EpisodeNumber2=20
|Title = Kessie Wises Up”
”Eeyore's Tailiversary
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|14}}
|ProdCode=125
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Upset about her limited knowledge, Kessie asks Owl to teach her everything so she will be better able to help her friends when they need it.
Rabbit sets the gang in pairs to make a surprise party for Eeyore to commemorate his Tailiversary – the anniversary of the day he got his tail.
Songs: "I Want to Know Everything Now" by Kessie and Owl; and "Happy Tailiversary" by the cast [sans Eeyore].
Note: Both stories are featured in the direct-to-video film The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001).
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 21
|EpisodeNumber2=21
|Title = The Words Are Out”
”Brain Drain
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|21}}
|ProdCode=121
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Piglet wakes up one morning with laryngitis and Pooh believes that his "words are lost" so he promises Piglet he'll find his missing words.
Eeyore forgets something he was trying to remember, and Owl comments that he's having a "brain drain." That simple comment puts everyone in fear that they're all suffering from the "brain drain" and are in danger of forgetting everything.
Songs: "Where Do Words Go?" and "Show the Sign".
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 22
|EpisodeNumber2=22
|Title = Pleas and Thank-You's”
”The Rumor Millstone
|DirectedBy=Bruce Logan
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|28}}
|ProdCode=122
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Tigger thinks please is a magic word and tries to use its magic to fly like a bird. Can Kessie stop Tigger from trying to fly?
Rabbit gets upset with Tigger when his bouncing threatens to mess up his crop of squash, so Rabbit tells a lie that the squash will take away his bounce. Tigger spreads this to the others who misinterpret the story, leading to everyone believing that a monster is in the 100 Acre Wood.
Songs: "Thank You, Please" by Owl and Tigger; and "When You're a Monster Too" by Tigger, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 23
|EpisodeNumber2=23
|Title = Busy as a Spelling Bee”
”Up in the Air Junior Bird Donkey
|DirectedBy=Bruce Logan
|WrittenBy=Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|6|4}}
|ProdCode=123
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = When Piglet is unable to spell out words after being stung by a bee, he thinks he has a strange disease from getting stung.
Kessie thinks Eeyore looks especially gloomy so she tries to teach him how to fly.
Songs: "Under a Spelling Bee's Spell" by Owl, Pooh and Piglet; and "Carried Away with Books" by Owl and the cast [sans Eeyore and Rabbit].
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 24
|EpisodeNumber2=24
|Title = Tigger's Replacement”
”Over the Hill
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
Mitchell Kriegman and Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|1}}
|ProdCode=124
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Tigger goes on a journey to get in touch with his wild side.
Pooh decides to go over the hill in search for adventure.
Songs: "Mental Altitude" by Tigger and Piglet; and "Adventure" by Pooh.
Note: Both stories are featured in the direct-to-video film The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001).
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 25
|EpisodeNumber2=25
|Title = Take Me to What River?”
”My Gloomy Valentine
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Chris Hoey
Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|2}}
|ProdCode=120
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Pooh and Piglet decide to name the river in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Everyone has a Valentine except Eeyore, so Pooh and his friends try to get their gloomy friend a Valentine gift. (This is a repeat of a story shown earlier in the season.)
Songs: "What's Your Name, River?" by Pooh and Piglet; and "Everyone Wants a Valentine" by the cast [sans Eeyore].
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 26
|EpisodeNumber2=26
|Title = Greenhorn with a Green Thumb”
”Night of the Waking Tigger
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Jymn Magon
Mark Zaslove
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|3}}
|ProdCode=126
|LineColor = F9CF00
|ShortSummary = Tigger learns about gardening from Rabbit.
Tigger resolves that he is wasting too much fun time by sleeping through the night, so he tries to stay up constantly.
Songs: "Get Growing" by Tigger; and "Tigger's Lullaby" by Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit.
Note: Both stories are featured in the direct-to-video film The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart (2001).
}}
}}
=Season 2 (2001–03)=
{{Episode table |background=#2950BB| overall=5 |season=5 |title=23 |writer= |director= |airdate=20 |prodcode=10 |episodes={{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 27
|EpisodeNumber2=1
|Title = The Wood Without Pooh"
"Friends of a Different Stripe
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|7|14}}
|ProdCode=201
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Pooh is worried about leaving his friends because his special, "good" honey lives far away.
When Rabbit's house is flooded by the storm, Tigger invites him to spend the night at his place.
Songs: "A Wood Without Pooh" by Piglet, Rabbit and Tigger; and "Impossible to Live With" by Tigger and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 28
|EpisodeNumber2=2
|Title = Mothers of Invention"
"Once Upon a Happy Ending
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|7|15}}
|ProdCode=202
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Rabbit babysits Roo for a day, only for Tigger to come along and wake Roo up during nap time. Now they must figure out a way to get bouncy, energetic Roo back to sleep.
Mr. Narrator accidentally skips to the end of the story where we find Tigger stuck in a tree. In search for answers, he goes back to the beginning to find Tigger diligently chasing an acorn around the Hundred Acre Wood for Piglet.
Songs: "Rhyme-A-By" by Rabbit, Roo and Tigger; and "Friends to the End" by Tigger and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 29
|EpisodeNumber2=3
|Title = Piglet's Perfect Party"
"A Wood Divided
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Doug Cordell
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|7|16}}
|ProdCode=203
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet is throwing a party, but he wants to make it perfect for his friends.
Tigger and Rabbit have a big fight and decide not to talk each other again.
Songs: "Perfect Party" by Piglet and Pooh; and "If We Were Talkin" by Tigger, Rabbit and the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 30
|EpisodeNumber2=4
|Title = Day of the Knights"
"Come as Eeyore
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|7|23}}
|ProdCode=204
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = The story of King Arthur inspires the gang.
Eeyore starts to think that he is too boring to show up at Tigger's party.
Songs: "Knights of the Roundish Table" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit; and "You Party Animal, You" by Owl and Eeyore.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 31
|EpisodeNumber2=5
|Title = Bravehat"
"Scaredy Cat
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|7|30}}
|ProdCode=205
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet is not sure the hat he found makes him brave.
Owl puts Tigger in charge of watching over his house while he's away. When nighttime comes, he, Piglet, and Rabbit hear some strange noises inside of Owl's house.
Songs: "Bravehat" by Piglet; and "That's All It Was" by Tigger, Piglet and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 32
|EpisodeNumber2=6
|Title = On a Clear Day You Can Bounce Forever"
"The Best Day Ever
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|8|6}}
|ProdCode=206
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = When Rabbit tells Tigger he is reading a book about a rabbit who wants to eat carrots forever, Tigger gets the idea that he wants to bounce forever.
Pooh and Piglet plan to have the perfect day with all of the activities that they enjoy doing together. However, they face a problem when they realize that things aren't going the way they planned.
Songs: "Bouncin'" by Tigger and Rabbit; and "Favorite Day" by Pooh and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 33
|EpisodeNumber2=7
|Title = Roo Sticks"
"A Hundred Acre Scrapbook
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|8|13}}
|ProdCode=207
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Tigger finds a stick which reminds him of the day that Kanga and Roo first moved in.
When Piglet goes on a trip, he tells Pooh to tell him all about what happened while he was gone. But Pooh can't figure out exactly how to do it.
Songs: "Someone New to Meet" by Owl, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit; and "Everyday Is a Song" by Kessie and Pooh.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 34
|EpisodeNumber2=8
|Title = Where the Heffalumps Roam"
"And a Good Time Was Had By All
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|8|27}}
|ProdCode=208
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet wonders what Heffalumps look like, so he and Pooh go on a safari to find out for themselves.
Owl lends Pooh a watch that needs winding, which causes Pooh to think that time has stopped.
Songs: "When I Meet a Heffalump" by Pooh and Piglet; and "Time Stands Still" by Pooh and Piglet.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 35
|EpisodeNumber2=9
|Title = What's News Tigger-Cat?"
"Pooh's 24 Hour Bug
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Chris Hoey
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|9|28}}
|ProdCode=209
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Rabbit decides to start a newspaper business after he and Tigger learned about it from Christopher Robin, though Tigger has a hard time trying to come up with a good story.
Pooh has come down with a case of the Sneezles, and Tigger, Rabbit, and Piglet have 24 hours to find everything on Owl's list for a cure.
Songs: "Who What When Where Why" by Rabbit and Tigger; and "Twenty-Four Hours to Save the Day" by Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 36
|EpisodeNumber2=10
|Title = Blue Ribbon Bunny"
"Under the Pig Top
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Doug Cordell
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|12|26}}
|ProdCode=213
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = The gang surprises Rabbit with a gardening award and it goes to his head.
Piglet writes a story about running away to the circus and Pooh and his friends thinks he actually wants to do it.
Songs: "Gardener of the Year" by Rabbit and the cast [sans Owl and possibly Pooh and Piglet]; and "The Hundred Acre Circus" by the cast (sans Piglet and Owl).
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 37
|EpisodeNumber2=11
|Title = The Best Laid Planets (of Tiggers and Roos)"
"Happy Harvest Hare
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Andy Yerkes
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|11|13}}
|ProdCode=211
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Kanga reads Roo and Tigger a story about a space adventure.
Piglet finds Rabbit dancing after his harvest has finally been completed.
Songs: "Into Outer Space" by Tigger and Roo; and "Blissful Bossa Nova" by Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 38
|EpisodeNumber2=12
|Title = The Bounce of a Lifetime"
"Hare and Share Alike
|DirectedBy=Jon Ludwig
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|19}}
|ProdCode=220
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Tigger says to everyone that he can leap over the Scary Woods in a single bounce. But is that really possible?
Rabbit tries to keep his best harvest ever to himself rather than share it with his friends.
Songs: "My Hero" by Roo, Tigger and Kanga; and "If You Don't Have Friends" by Rabbit
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 39
|EpisodeNumber2=13
|Title = The Terrific Talking Tomato"
"Kessie Flies for a Spell
|DirectedBy=Jon Ludwig
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|3|3}}
|ProdCode=214
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Tigger tricks everyone by making it appear that one of Rabbit's tomatoes can talk.
Owl hurts his wing while teaching Kessie some flight tricks. He reminisces about his glory days as an air show star, and Kessie gets inspired to put her own air show to cheer up Owl.
Songs: "Talking Tomato" by the cast (sans Kanga and Owl); and "Flying" by Kessie and Owl.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 40
|EpisodeNumber2=14
|Title = The Book of Boo
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|10|1}}
|ProdCode=210
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = On Halloween evening, everyone gathers at Owl's house to listen to the spooky story, "The Goose Who Hated Halloween." Eeyore, however claims to not be scared of much, and doesn't understand the fuss of Halloween. He moves to the Scary Woods after people keep on knocking over his house of sticks. Piglet goes looking for Eeyore but winds up scaring him, and wins the scary costume contest. Everyone now enjoys Halloween in the Hundred Acre Wood, even Eeyore.
Songs: "I Wanna Be Scary" by Piglet, "Nuthin' Much Scares Me" by Eeyore, "The Hundred Acre Halloween" by the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 41
|EpisodeNumber2=15
|Title = Kessie Gets the Message"
"Map of the Wood
|DirectedBy=Jon Ludwig
|WrittenBy=Doug Cordell
Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|15}}
|ProdCode=215
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Kessie feels left out of what the gang is doing, so Rabbit tells her she can help deliver messages to the others, but when everyone gives her a lot of messages, she gets tired and has a hard time remembering them.
Pooh gets lost and he misses lunch time at Rabbit's house, so his friends help him make a map of the Hundred Acre Wood so he'll never get lost again.
Songs: "Ring Your Bell" by Kessie; and "Map of the Wood" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 42
|EpisodeNumber2=16
|Title = The Stickiest Glue of All"
"A Smackeral in Every Pot
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Doug Cordell
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|3|17}}
|ProdCode=218
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Pooh borrows Piglet’s friendship plate and accidentally breaks it. Thinking the friendship plate represents their own friendship, Pooh believes that their friendship is broken.
Tigger hits the campaign trail when the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood get hit by election fever.
Songs: "Broken Friendship" by Pooh and Piglet; and "Vote For Me" by Tigger, Piglet and the cast [sans Rabbit]
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 43
|EpisodeNumber2=17
|Title = Do the Roo"
"Buck-a-Roo
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|3|24}}
|ProdCode=219
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Roo wants to dance for his mother Kanga on her birthday, so he asks his friends for help.
Roo is sick in bed, so in order to make him feel better Kanga tells him a story about him as a cowboy.
Songs: "Do the Roo" by Roo, Kanga, Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Rabbit; "The Rabbit Tango"; "The Honey Dance"; "Piglet Ballet"; and "Call Me Buck-A-Roo" by Roo and the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 44
|EpisodeNumber2=18
|Title = Could it Be Magic?"
"Diary of a Mad Gardener
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|ProdCode=221
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|10|29}}
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Tigger takes up magic, but things start to go wrong when he accidentally makes Piglet disappear.
The gang read Rabbit's garden diary and thinks he is criticizing their behavior, so they try to change to make him happy.
Songs: "It's Only Magic" by Tigger and Piglet; and "I Never" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 45
|EpisodeNumber2=19
|Title = I Was the King of the Heffalumps"
"Tigger's Club
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Pippin Parker
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|6|24}}
|ProdCode=222
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet dreams of having the ability to talk to Heffalumps.
Tigger starts a fan club for himself and invites everyone to join in. However, that soon evolves into a lot of trouble.
Songs: "King of the Heffalumps" by Piglet; and "Pouncing Panther Pledge" by Tigger.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 46
|EpisodeNumber2=20
|Title = Chez Piglet"
"Pandora's Suggestion Box
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|2|6}}
|ProdCode=216
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet decides to open his own restaurant.
Rabbit has an idea for a suggestion box, but it doesn't work out the way he expected.
Songs: "At Chez Piglet" by Rabbit and Piglet; and "A Perfect Forest" by Rabbit.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 47
|EpisodeNumber2=21
|Title = Enter Braying"
"Weather or Not
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Chris Hoey
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|3}}
|ProdCode=223
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Rabbit stages a play which Eeyore wrote.
Rabbit needs rain for his garden, so Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger try to find a way to make it rain.
Songs: "That's How You Put on a Show" by Rabbit and the cast; and "Let it Rain" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 48
|EpisodeNumber2=22
|Title = The Case of the Disappeared Donkey"
"The Littlest Dinosnore
|DirectedBy=Tom Guadarrama
|WrittenBy=Doug Cordell
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|7|8}}
|ProdCode=224
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Tigger becomes detective "Stripey McSnarl" and investigates Eeyore's mysterious disappearance.
Roo is too little to join his friends on an expedition, so Tigger cheers him up with some tall tales about "The Littlest Dinosnore" and the big things he did.
Songs: "Stripey McSnarl Always Gets His Man" by Tigger; and "The Littlest Dinosnore" by Tigger and the Male Chorus.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 49
|EpisodeNumber2=23
|Title = Piglet's Inadvertent Adventure"
"The Power of the Pencil
|DirectedBy=Dean Gordon
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2003|3|15}}
|ProdCode=217
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Piglet ends up having an adventure, even though he was just going to his mailbox.
It's Owl Appreciation Day, and Pooh and his friends have to get ready for it.
Songs: "Nothing Ever Happens" by Piglet; and "Power of the Pencil" by Owl and the cast.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 50
|EpisodeNumber2=24
|Title = The Wishing Tree
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|12|3}}
|ProdCode=212
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Roo sets out on a Christmas Eve adventure with Pooh, Piglet and Tigger in search of a tree that grants wishes, while Rabbit follows a magazine's step-by-step instructions for the perfect holiday party.
Songs: "The Wishing Tree" by Kanga, reprise by the cast; "At Least There's Still Christmas" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo; and "Wish Big" by Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Roo.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 51
|EpisodeNumber2=25
|Title = The Great Honey Pot"
"Paging Piglet
|DirectedBy=Mitchell Kriegman
|WrittenBy=Claudia Silver
Doug Cordell
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|11|5}}
|ProdCode=225
|LineColor = 2950BB
|ShortSummary = Pooh goes on a search for a honey pot called "The Great Honey Pot".
Pooh and Piglet are flying a kite when Piglet becomes attached to it and blows away. Pooh asks around for help but nobody seems to know where Piglet is, and it isn’t until Mr. Narrator suggests Piglet might be in an entirely different story that the search really picks up.
Songs: "Too Much Honey"; and "Lost in a Book" by Mr. Narrator and Pooh.
}}
}}
Awards and nominations
The series received three Emmy Awards nominations,{{cite web |author=Craig Offman |url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/news/daytime-emmy-noms-announced-1117863876/ |title=Daytime Emmy noms announced |work=Variety |date=March 13, 2002 |access-date=2018-04-21}} and tied with Sesame Street for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Series at the 29th Daytime Emmy Awards in 2002.{{cite web |author= |url=https://variety.com/2002/tv/awards/pbs-abc-top-emmy-nods-1117866797/ |title=PBS, ABC top Emmy nods |work=Variety |date=May 12, 2002 |access-date=2018-04-21}}
Film
{{Main|The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart}}
The Book of Pooh: The Stories from the Heart is a direct-to-video animated spin-off based on the television series The Book of Pooh. The film was produced by Shadow Projects, distributed by Buena Vista Television, and released on both VHS and DVD.
It contains six episodes, each of which focuses on one character. It is wrapped together by a loose plot in which the characters wait in Christopher Robin's room for his arrival. As is typical with the series, each episode features an original musical number. It is a compilation film of footage from the TV series.
Home media and streaming
Several VHS Tapes were released in 2001 and 2002:
Fun with Words
- The Words Are Out
- Brain Drain
- I Could Have Laughed All Night
- X Marks the Spot
Fun with Friends
- You Can Lead Eeyore to Books
- The Spice of Life
- Best Wishes, Winnie the Pooh
- Double Time
A Valentine for Eeyore
- My Gloomy Valentine
- Mr. Narrator
- Don Pooh Xote
- Beastly Burden
Fun with Manners
- Pleas and Thank-You's
- The Rumor Millstone
- The Wood Without Pooh
- Friends of a Different Stripe
Fun with Make-Believe
- The Case of the Disappeared Donkey
- The Littlest Dinosnore
- Blue Ribbon Bunny
- Under the Pig Top
The entire show became available to stream on Disney+ on its launch, November 12, 2019.
See also
References
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External links
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{{Winnie-the-Pooh}}
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