How a Bear Became a Book Book Review

How a Bear Became a Book: The Collaboration That Created Winnie-the-Pooh
Written by Annette Bay Pimentel
illustrated by Faith Pray
Published by Henry Holt and Co.

Mom's Review

There are so many features of How a Bear Became a Book that I absolutely adore (can I get any more superlative?)! It is hard even get my thoughts in order to share with you - I'm that excited!!!

I need to start by saying that I could hear Jim Cummings's voice speak each of Pooh's honey-golden words (as in, the words spoken by Pooh are printed in honey-gold lettering).

What next?

How about the way Pray has drawn Pooh with a rather fuzzy outline that is filled with text?
Or maybe how Pooh's outline becomes more substantial as Christopher Robin explains the book creation process to Pooh?

I should probably point out how the entire book starts with a conversation between Christopher Robin and Pooh about story creation.

It's also charming how Pooh plays with a stick puppet that looks like Disney's version of Piglet, but when we get to see Piglet himself later, he's classic green-sweater-wearing Piglet.

And I don't want to neglect how Pooh interrupts Christopher Robin's narration with thoughts of honey.

Every single page reveals something delightful for both lifelong and new visitors to the Hundred Acre Wood. Through it all, readers learn how A. A. Milne brought the beloved character of Winnie-the-Pooh to the world. Back matter offers biographical information on all the individuals involved with the process of producing the picture book, which is a pretty cool follow-up to explaining the process of producing the Winnie-the-Pooh books.