Another Pooh book that is practically more of a toy since it comes with a detachable faux CD player and plastic music disks. The disks have little ridges that push down little buttons inside the player that determine which songs it should play from its electronic memory. After 17 years of infrequent use, the device on our book still works perfectly. The music comes out thin and a little tinny, and its all instrumentals with no vocals so you can do a karaoke singalong with the many nursery rhymes printed in the book. It also includes the music for some songs from the animated films and shows by the Sherman Brothers, Carly Simon, and Steve Nelson, but the lyrics are not provided anywhere in the book for those songs as their instrumental versions are intended to provide a score for the story sections of the book that frame the nursery rhymes.

The few pages of story provide a very brief adaptation of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner Chapter Three: In Which a Search Is Organdized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again. Small, of Rabbit's friends and relations, is missing and Pooh and Piglet help search but end up falling into an old Heffalump trap.

The nursery rhymes are mostly the traditional version, but two or three are adapted to include the names of some Pooh friends. It seems Amazon attributes this adaptation to a "Helen Richards," but that may be in error as I can find no mention of her name anywhere on my copy of the book even though full credits are given to the writers of the music whom I mentioned above as well as Johannes Brahms.

The art is okay. I recognize many of the illustrations from two previous Pooh books of nursery rhymes compiled by Cassandra Case, Pooh's Favorite Singing Games (1999) and Singing Nursery Rhymes with Pooh (1999), where the artists are not credited. One image is by illustrator Atelier Philippe Harchy from the Jamie Simons version of Oh, Bother! Someone Won't Share (2000).

Contents:
Morning Time
• How Many Honeypots? [Rumbly in My Tumbly, music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman]
• Good Morning
• The Mulberry Bush
• Mister Sun
• Muffin Man
• It's Raining, It's Pouring
• Down by the Station
Story Time
• Where is Small? [Winnie the Pooh, music by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman]
• A-Tisket, A-Tasket
• Hickory, Dickory, Dock
• Pop! Goes the Weasel
• Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Old MacDonald
Playtime
• Hero Party! [Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear, music by Carly Simon]
• Piglet's Bridge (Sung to the tune of "London Bridge")
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• The Farmer in the Dell
• Looby-Loo
• The Itsy-Bitsy Spider
• The Wheels on the Bus
Bedtime
• Time to Say, "Good Night" [The Floating Song, music by Steve Nelson]
• Come Out to Play
• Rock-a-Bye, Baby
• Hey, Diddle, Diddle
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Hush, Little Baby
• Lullaby, and Good Night (Written by Johannes Brahms)

(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... ) ( )