Aline Lemay

The nothing story has Pooh wandering around gathering up his friends one by one so they can all do something together at the end of the book, but gosh darn if the art isn't adorably gorgeous!

There is no artist credited on the cover or inside, but the characters look exactly like those drawn by Mike Wall in The Little Things in Life: Simple Reflections from the Hundred-Acre Wood, so I'd guess it is more of his fine work. Let me compare to be sure . . . and . . . YES! . . . all the pictures in this book were taken directly from that book. Aline Lemay just wrote a new story to tie them together here. I wish Phidal Publishing had given Wall proper credit, and I hope he'll get a decent story to draw one day.

In addition to the board book story pages, there is a boxed area in the back of the book with a big playmat featuring more of the same beautiful art laying out the whole Hundred-Acre Wood and some mostly cute little figurines to play with on the mat. Kids should love it.

(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... )… (altro)