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Pooh plants a pumpkin seed and is confused when, instead of a big orange pumpkin popping out of the ground immediately, he has to wait a long time before first sees a vine, then later a flower, and eventually a small green ball. A cute introduction to the life cycle of plants and seasons.

This is another entry in the My Very First Winnie the Pooh series that has an adapted by author's credit. It appears this is an adaptation of Pooh's Pumpkin (A Winnie the Pooh First Reader) by Isabelle Gaines and Josie Yee. Yee's exact pictures are used again here, but adapter Agnes Sumner has gone through Gaines' original script and added a bunch of words to every sentence. Like Pooh's ripening pumpkin, the opening line grows from:
"One sunny spring day Pooh and Christopher Robin saw Rabbit planting seeds in his garden"
to:
"One sunny spring day, Pooh and Christopher Robin found Rabbit working hard in the patch of earth where his garden would eventually grow.

Funny.

(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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