Pooh and his friends enjoy a winter day of playing in the snow. But they get a rude awakening when they invite the snowman they made to come inside and sit by the fire.

The gimmick of the "Learning with Pooh and Friends" series is that little encyclopedia entries and photographs are inserted on the outer edges of the story pages. So when Pooh walks through snow, we're told that snow is made of ice crystals and shown a photograph of a snow angel. Most of the entries are rather random, pulling in an igloo, moose, snow fox and polar bear even though they don't appear in the story so as to fill out the factoid sections.

The other book I read in this series recycled pictures from a book in the "My Very First Winnie the Pooh" series, so I checked and found that, sure enough, this book recycles the art from another book in that series: Pooh Welcomes Winter, written by Kathleen W. Zoehfeld and illustrated by Robin Cuddy. The text of the stories are completely different and the pictures have been shuffled around to serve the new narrative.

(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh books my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.) ( )