The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart

The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart
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Directed by	Mitchell Kriegman Dean Gordon Additional material : Mitchell Kriegman
Written by	Mitchell Kriegman Andy Yerkes Jymn Magon Claudia Silver Mark Zaslove Additional material : Mitchell Kriegman Andy Yerkes
Based on	The Book of Pooh by A. A. Milne
Produced by	Robin Seidon
Starring	Jim Cummings John Fiedler Ken Sansom Peter Cullen Andre Stojka Stephanie D'Abruzzo Jeff Bennett Paul Tiesler Vicki Kenderes Eibner
Narrated by	Roger L. Jackson
Production company	Shadow Projects
Distributed by	Buena Vista Home Entertainment[a]
Release date	July 17, 2001 (2001-07-17)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart is a 2001 American direct-to-video compilation film based on the Playhouse Disney television series The Book of Pooh.

It contains six episodes, each of which focuses on one character. It is wrapped together by a loose plot in which the characters wait in Christopher Robin's room for his arrival. As is typical with the series, each episode features an original musical number. It is a compilation film composed of footage from the TV series.

This film was produced by Shadow Projects and released on both VHS and DVD on July 17, 2001, by Walt Disney Home Entertainment.^[1]

Plot[]

Pooh, Piglet and Tigger literally pop out of the Book of Pooh into Christopher Robin's room, but can't find Christopher there. Tigger decides to search for Christopher's journal, in hopes of finding out where he's gone, but ends up making a real mess. While they're trying to clean up the room, Piglet notices that Christopher Robin had marked some chapters of the Book of Pooh with special bookmarks featuring each of his friends. As the story continues, Rabbit, Kessie and Eeyore each show up too and at one point, they're forced to hide when Christopher Robin's mother comes upstairs after hearing their voices and mistakes them for her son. One by one, the characters ask Mr. Narrator to read the book's stories for them, leading to the following episodes:

• Over the Hill (Pooh's Story)
• Tigger's Replacement (Piglet's Story)
• Kessie Wises Up (Kessie's Story)
• The Greenhorn with a Green Thumb (Rabbit's Story)
• The Night of the Waking Tigger (Tigger's Story)
• Eeyore's Tailiversary (Eeyore's Story)

At the end, Pooh and his friends clean up the mess they've made and go into hiding when Christopher Robin returns with his mother and after she leaves, they come out of hiding and Christopher Robin reveals that he had his journal with him all along. He proceeds to read them the stories he marked, but finds out that they had already read them. Tigger suggests that Christopher Robin should read his journal to them instead, in which he agrees.

Voice actors[]

• Jim Cummings – Winnie the Pooh and Tigger
• Peter Cullen – Eeyore
• Ken Sansom – Rabbit
• John Fiedler – Piglet's speaking voice
• Jeff Bennett - Piglet's singing voice
• Andre Stojka – Owl
• Stephanie D'Abruzzo – Kessie
• Paul Tiesler – Christopher Robin
• Vicki Kenderes Eibner – Christopher Robin's Mom
• Roger L. Jackson – Mr. Narrator

Toys[]

Toys were released based on the film available such as Happy Meal Promotion and Stuffed Toys as a McDonald's Happy Meal series from July 11 to August 9, 2001.

See also[]

• "Winnie the Pooh" (song)

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart at IMDb
• The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart at MSN Movies