As my daughter said afterword, this is a fine adaptation of poor source material.

This is drawn from a 1988 episode of the Disney animated series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I enjoy many of the episodes from the series, but the majority of them are pure trash: nonsensical plots stuffed with slapstick.

In this episode, for some unexplained reason, a bath washes away all of Tigger's stripes. Also unexplained is that without the stripes, Pooh, Piglet and Rabbit can no longer recognize Tigger or what creature he might be. They suggest this complete stranger whom they were forcefully bathing mere moments before tries emulating them to see if he is a rabbit, bear or pig. Pratfalls and hijinks fill out Tigger's quest for identity. As the runtime of the episode is ticks down, the stripes come back without explanation and the status quo is restored.

Whoever did this adaptation must have been working from the teleplay or storyboards only, because the garden insects are drawn completely differently and a short scene with Piglet's sweater is included here that was replaced in the show with a Christmas tree sequence.

FOR REFERENCE:

Picture book adaptation of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated segment "Stripes," from Season 1, Episode 8; first aired March 6, 1988); directed by Karl Geurs, David Block and Terence Harrison; story by Terrie Collins and Mark Zaslove; teleplay by Terrie Collins, Mark Zaslove and Bruce Reid Schaefer.

"Stripes" was also adapted into another, shorter picture book called A Tigger Inside & Out. That adaptation uses a portion of the same illustrations but has entirely different text.

(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... ) ( )