I want to like this educational story about bees, but the author has the nerve to use the most cliched and formulaic of Pooh plots: Pooh wakes up in the morning, realizes he has a problem, walks around the Hundred-Acre Wood and discusses it with his friends one by one and then has a celebratory party once a resolution has been reached.

Also, part of the advice for helping bees is to leave out dishes of standing water for them, but that directly contradicts advice about suppressing mosquito breeding grounds.

Though the book is copyright by Disney, the art mimics that of E. H. Shepard, giving us a Roo who looks like a cross between a chipmunk and a squashed bug.

(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... ) ( )