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The title is the story: Pooh picks a costume. That's it. Done. Move along now.

(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... )

When they find Rabbit baking a cake one March day, Pooh and Piglet decide for him that it should be a birthday cake and set out to throw a birthday party. It's sort of a surprise party in that they don't know who the party is for and are surprised when they find out there is a birthday to be celebrated. It might have been fun if over half the book wasn't wasted with them just handing out party invitations to their friends one by one.

On a side note, for years I thought I had all the books in the "Read with Pooh . . . All Year Through!" series -- three board books for every month of the year -- but I just found out their are four extra book-end volumes we weren't sent during our mail-order subscription. I was able to find this 40th book that ends the series, but I'm still looking for the three that begin it: The Months of the Year by Catherine Lukas, The Days of the Week by Catherine Samuel, and The Four Seasons by Sarah Albee. A collector's work is never done!

(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... )

This is the third book in the "Read with Pooh . . . All Year Through!" series that opens up like an accordion. One side has a four-sentence story of Tigger bouncing through a pumpkin patch and landing in some leaves on an autumn day. The other side is a panoramic fall scene with all the Pooh friends that can be used as a backdrop for playing with the paper dolls that come in some of the other books in the series.

More a toy than a book.

(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... )

This board book is big enough for a toddler to crawl onto and get right into the pictures to do the matching and pointing activities. Not very engaging for me, but I think little ones would love it, and the pictures of the Pooh friends are just adorable, as the series name promises.

(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... )

Christopher Robin receives a letter from an American cousin describing her Fourth of July holiday plans, so he decides -- as most any English person would I suppose -- to celebrate it, throwing a parade and party with Pooh and the Hundred-Acre friends. And that's it, really, just another Pooh party.

(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... )