Scared by how much the wind can whip him around, Piglet decides to become a shut-in. Pooh and his friends try to coax him out into the world again, but it will take a life-or-death situation to help Piglet overcome his fears.

I have a deep nostalgic love of the cartoon series from which this is adapted, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but man that show has a ton of clunkers full of stupid physical comedy -- slapstick and pratfalls galore -- and unlikely plot developments far removed from A. A. Milne's source material. This bit of bluster was originally called "Gone with the Wind," and I do wish it had been blown away from memory rather than deemed worthy of not one but two book treatments. See you tomorrow for the second adaptation: A Windswept Piglet.

FOR REFERENCE:

Picture book adaptation of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh animated segment "Gone with the Wind," from Season 1, Episode 11; first aired March 27, 1988; directed by Karl Geurs; story by Terrie Collins and Mark Zaslove; teleplay by Terrie Collins and Bruce Talkington.

(Pooh Project: Phase 2! I've managed to catalog all the shorter Pooh books my family owns (see the list here). While I work through few remaining longer Pooh books we own, I'm missing my daily dose of Pooh, so I'm going to start seeking out some of the Pooh books I don't own – yet – from libraries IRL and online. See the reviews here.) ( )