This board book is an adaptation of A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter Four: In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One. Eleanor Kwei has adapted Ernest H. Shepard's original illustrations to fit a slightly revised storyline.

The gimmick of this particular board book is that it is layered by die-cuts to show all six featured characters when the book is closed. As you read the story, each page turn reveals what the character is doing on their particular page.

As the original chapter only had four characters, this adaptation takes some liberties to fill out the cast. Thus, Pooh stops to ask Piglet and Tigger if they've seen Eeyore's tail before ending up at Owl's house where a certain bell rope will catch his attention. Tigger is not only not included in the original chapter, he isn't even in the Pooh book where the chapter appears, not showing up until The House at Pooh Corner.

This rendering is nowhere near as good as the original chapter since it is chopped down severely to be told in a tiny fraction of the number of words but it still evokes Milne enough to put a little smile on my face.

(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... ) ( )