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PBEBOOKS | Jan 27, 2023 |
This is a slapdash collection of three other coloring/activity books. While there is a copyright for Disney Enterprises, the name of the publisher is not anywhere on the book that I could find.

• Piglet's Big Movie: The Littlest Helper / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators

For some reason all the text of the original coloring book adaptation of the 2003 film has been omitted, so only the nice illustrations remain. It was sort of interesting to review the movie in pantomime, but anyone unfamiliar with it would be quite lost I assume.

• Winnie the Pooh: Nighttime Noises / Helena Winston, author; Darrell Baker, illustrator

Once again, all the text of the original story has been omitted. I'm not familiar with the original tale, but from what I can suss out from the images, Pooh and Piglet are scared of noises in the night, but wander around in the dark and figure out they're mostly coming from their friends or harmless creatures in the Hundred-Acre Wood

• Winnie the Pooh: Let's Go on a Picnic / Janet Halfmann, author; Angel Rodriguez, illustrator

Arbitrarily the text is included in the final story. But it is also the least interesting story as the friends just gather supplies for and frolic at a picnic.

(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... )
 
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villemezbrown | Nov 10, 2022 |
I'm reading this as part of my Pooh Project as there are several Pooh stories herein.

This collection is full of not very scary stories targeted at very young children. Many of the stories are adaptation of Disney animated features, shorts, or TV episodes, but there are quite a few original stories also. It's bland, corporate creativity, but kids will probably like it. As for me, the Pooh stories were the best part, of course.

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Story / Tennant Redbank, author; adapted from the story by Tim Burton, adaptation by Michael McDowell, and screenplay by Caroline Thompson
~ 2 stars ~
I've never watched this movie. This adaptation seems pretty bare bones (see what I did there?), but it makes me think I should finally give the movie a try.

Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh / Bruce Talkington, author; John Kurtz, illustrator; adapted from the teleplay by Mark Zaslove and Carter Crocker
~ 3 stars ~
This adaptation of an episode of "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" actually amused me with it's meta bits as Tigger injects horror into Piglet's happy and cheerful story, turning it into a Frankenstein homage. And there's a fine twist ending. I immediately pulled up the show on Disney+ (season 2, episode 2) and rewatched it.

Mickey and Friends: Haunted Halloween / Diane Muldrow, author; Tilley Scott, illustrator
~ 2 stars ~
A storm and unreliable electricity cause Mickey Mouse and his friends to be briefly scared in turn by a series of mild misunderstandings. Super tame.

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: The Headless Horseman / Jasmine Jones, author; adapted from the short film with story by Erdman Penner, Winston Hibler, Joe Rinaldi, Ted Sears, Homer Brightman, and Harry Reeves; adapted from the short story by Washington Irving
~ 2 stars ~
This adaptation strips away too much to just get to the slapstick of Ichabod Crane riding fearfully down the dark road on Halloween. The romantic triangle and the implications of Brom Bones involvement with the Headless Horseman are just gone, leaving a pretty thin and too straightforward ghost story.

Winnie the Pooh: Pooh's Bad Dream / Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, author; Robin Cuddy, illustrator
~ 3 stars ~
I already reviewed this story earlier in the Pooh project when I read the original book:

It's "A Nightmare in Elm Tree" as a dream fiend comes for Pooh's true lifeblood -- his honey!

Or rather Pooh and friends provide comfort to young readers about bad dreams. After Pooh has a heffalump nightmare, he gets some reassurance from Christopher Robin and Piglet and is able to immediately master lucid dreaming (much to the jealousy of my daughter) and confront his fears. Nice.

It totally reminds me of the third Elm Street, "Dream Warriors" and the classic line, "In my dreams I can walk. My legs are strong. In my dreams I am the Wizard Master."

And, hey, since it's Pooh, I don't even mind putting up with dream sequences, which I usually hate.

Mickey Mouse: Runaway Brain / Kathryn Cristaldi, author; adapted from the animated short film directed by Chris Bailey from a story by Tim Hauser
~ 2 stars ~
Mickey forgets an anniversary with Minnie and accidentally promises an expensive gift to make up for it. To earn cash, he answers an ad in the paper from a mad scientist and ends up swapping brains with a monster. Very dull shenanigans ensue.

I was going to watch the original short film on Disney+ to see if this adaptation was really bad or if the source material was the problem. But it turns out the film isn't on Disney's streaming service, and this article claims Disney is intentionally suppressing the Oscar-nominated short because of internal disapproval of it:
https://www.polygon.com/features/22738384/runaway-brain-evil-mickey-short-stream...

Winnie the Pooh: Boo to You, Winnie the Pooh! / Bruce Talkington, author; Robin Cuddy, illustrator; adapted from the teleplay by Carter Crocker
~ 2 stars ~
It's all pratfalls and misunderstandings in a story that isn't nearly as funny as it wants to be. Piglet is scared of Halloween, but ends up being braver than he thinks and saves it from being a Hallowasn't. I'm not a fan of the TV special upon which this is based either. Very meh.

Donald Duck: Donald Duck and the Witch Next Door / [originally an uncredited Little Golden Book]
~ 3 stars ~
Donald learns you shouldn't start feuds with your neighbor, especially if she is the witch Madam Mim. I quickly bored of Donald acting the ass, but I did like how Huey, Dewey, and Louie made the most of the situation in the end.

Aladdin: Who's that Ghost? / Kim Ostrow, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
On a rainy day, the Genie decides to spice things up with a prank that turns the palace into a haunted house. Dull.

Tarzan: One Brave Gorilla / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
A trio of gorillas don't want young Tarzan tagging along with them, so they try to scare him off and get him lost, but it all backfires predictably in the end.

Peter Pan: Captain Hook's Shadow / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
Michael Darling gets a bit of a solo story as he learns that some nighttime shadows are more ominous than others. I was almost liking it until it turns out the whole story happens because Peter Pan is a dick . . . which I guess is the point of Peter Pan. I really should try to read that book again some day.

The Little Mermaid: The Sunken Ship / Kathryn Cristaldi, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 1 stars ~
Ariel hears a mysterious sound in a shipwreck that gives her a nightmare, but she confronts her fears and finds the source. But the source is one of those things only a really bad author would come up with: a small child's wind-up toy that can run continuously underwater for 24 to 48 hours. I'll suspend disbelief for mermaids but not for that crap.

Beauty and the Beast: The Haunted Castle / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
One of those tired tales where a misunderstanding makes a character think something scary is happening when rather a very good thing is happening. Meh.

Toy Story and Beyond!: Where's Woody? / Jasmine Jones, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
Woody falls out the window, so Jessie and Buzz set out to rescue him. Once again, nothing is as scary as it seems.

Monsters, Inc.: The Spooky Slumber Party/ Kim Ostrow, author; Disney Storybook Artists, illustrators
~ 2 stars ~
Mike gets stuck in the human world when a transporting door malfunctions, so Sulley sets out to rescue him. Once again, nothing is as scary as it seems.

(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... )
 
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villemezbrown | Oct 18, 2022 |
Piglet's Big Movie is my second favorite Disney Pooh movie, right after The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It was so refreshing to have direct adaptations of chapters straight out of the Milne book after the previous two films -- Pooh's Grand Adventure and The Tigger Movie -- went so far afield from the canon. Also, the Carly Simon soundtrack is plain wonderful, and I have it on regular rotation in my music mix slipping in between Metallica, Mozart, and Johnny Cash.

My fifth adaptation of Piglet's Big Movie by writer Jasmine Jones and the Disney Storybook Artists is a 64-page coloring book tells the story of the film in the simplest manner. It scores a bonus star for showing the advancement my daughter had made since she had colored in the book I reviewed just yesterday -- Piglet's Big Movie: Hip, Hip Hooray!

FOR REFERENCE:

The original film was directed by Francis Glebas, with a screenplay by Brian Hohlfeld, additional screenplay material by Ted Henning, and based on Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne. The film and its many adaptations contain a framing sequence around segments adapting A. A. Milne's:
Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter 7. In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter 8. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
The House at Pooh Corner Chapter 1. In Which A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore.

(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... )
 
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villemezbrown | Jul 13, 2022 |
Piglet's Big Movie is my second favorite Disney Pooh movie, right after The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It was so refreshing to have direct adaptations of chapters straight out of the Milne book after the previous two films -- Pooh's Grand Adventure and The Tigger Movie -- went so far afield from the canon. Also, the Carly Simon soundtrack is plain wonderful, and I have it on regular rotation in my music mix slipping in between Metallica, Mozart, and Johnny Cash.

My fourth adaptation of Piglet's Big Movie by writer Jasmine Jones and the Disney Storybook Artists is a coloring book that still sorta kinda manages to tell the story in spite of its very terse sentences. My favorite: "Pooh is in danger! But Piglet appears and saves him -- hooray!" That sentence and revisiting my daughter's pitiful 3-year-old attempts at coloring rate a bonus star.

FOR REFERENCE:

The original film was directed by Francis Glebas, with a screenplay by Brian Hohlfeld, additional screenplay material by Ted Henning, and based on Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne. The film and its many adaptations contain a framing sequence around segments adapting A. A. Milne's:
Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter 7. In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath
Winnie-the-Pooh Chapter 8. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole
The House at Pooh Corner Chapter 1. In Which A House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore.

(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... )
 
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villemezbrown | Jul 12, 2022 |
Another book from my Little Free Library that I wanted to read just for the fun of it and now will be returning having read it.

This one is adapted from two TV episodes of the Lizzie McGuire show from Disney. I watched this show when it was on, loved it. I've been a longtime fan of Savage Steve Holland, the animator of Lizzie's internal monologue, so that was my initial reason for tuning in, then I just fell for the characters and the writing.

First up, Lizzie's brother Matt winds up on the wrong bus and spends the day inventing a new life to impress Lizzie's classmates, each claim getting more and more ridiculous, but the kids eat it up, much to Lizzie's chagrin.

The second story, originally written by Nina Bargiel, involves a class project where Lizzie's classmates all pair up to see what married life is like. Lizzie doesn't get the match she wants, so is distracted during most of it, even though she gets lucky enough to match with her best friend. Turns out, her nemesis is out to ruin things for her other best friend, who did happen to get her match choice.

Two fun episodes, worth the read.
 
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sduislibrary | 2 reseñas más. | May 3, 2016 |
Coach Carter is a great book that teaches responsibility, dedication and the love of a family. Coach Carter's team did not get along with each other, care about academics what-so-ever, or even understand their own self worth. The mindset and dedication of one coach to turn this team around changed the lives for all of these players. Making the athletes understand that getting their education was one of the most important factors in their lives, even more important than basketball, was his main goal. Coach Carter taught this team to make sacrifices, work together and understand what was really important in live. They learned to look out for one another and not leave any one of them behind. Coach Carter ends up having a winning, successful season and a high graduation rate . He achieved his goal of helping these young men turn their lives around.
 
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BriannaCalver | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 7, 2013 |
Raven has a boyfriend named Devon carter. It turns out he’s moving to Seattle because his dad is getting remarried. Raven dresses up as the bride to convince him that Devon and her were meant for each other. Review by AS
 
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HoriconLibrary | Nov 12, 2010 |
I think that this book teaches how one person can change the perspective of others and how they think about things. This book talks about how the basketball team doesn’t get along and how they have ruff lives and how some of theme have to deal to make a living and how others have a baby on the way. I think that I would recommend this book because it could not only teach but show someone what one stranger do to help someone when they are down or they don’t always make the right decisions. What I liked about this book is that they all at first hated the coach and that they didn’t agree with what he was doing to theme, by him telling theme that they need to show up to there classes and how they must maintain a good average. It shows that he really did try to help theme to successfully get good grades and at the same time help theme with there sportsmanship. It showed that he wasn’t going to let theme fail and that he was getting attached to theme. I also liked when after a while Cruz(one of the players) gave up on basketball and then decided to hustle and deal drugs, till one night he saw something that he never thought would ever happened. His uncle got shot right in front of him and he had to see everything. After that he went to the last person I would ever think he would go to he went to his coach’s house and his coached was shocked with what he was seeing. Of course the coached helped him till the next day. That’s when Cruz decided to region the basketball team and play, but the coach told him he had a lot of warm-up’s to do and then he started to do theme but it was to much for him to do in one week. At the end he didn’t finish on time and then his team mattes helped him. At the end they win all there games and they all learn new stuff and get to like there coach.
 
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nm.spring08r.morales | 2 reseñas más. | May 30, 2008 |
I like the book because catwoman character is wonderful, flexible and spectacular, and the story is fantastic because its show you how did she get the power of cats
 
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