Product Description

Following the Seventy-fifth Anniversary Year of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2001, there will will be a year of change for The Wisdom of Pooh list in 2002. To celebrate the 20th year since the publication in the UK in 1982 of The Tao of Pooh and the 10th year since the publication in 1992 of The Te of Piglet, the cover for best selling title The Tao of Pooh & The Te of Piglet paperback bind up of these two titles will be redesigned in a new style to reach a wider market for Winnie-the-Pooh adult readers and to encourage new fans for Benjamin Hoff's best-selling titles. Pooh's Way of doing things seems strangely close to the ancient principle of Taoist philosophy, while Piglet exhibits the very important principle in Taoism of the Te, meaning Virtue of the Small. The author's explanations of Taoism and Te through Pooh and Piglet show that this is not an ancient and remote philosophy but something that you can use, here and now.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10285 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-01
• Format: Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

Don't be stressed . . .
Someone gave me this book when I was stressed, and it's great. The author has studied the Winnie the Pooh books and analysed the philosophy of the characters. Ok, it's childish, but it makes you pause over how you live your life and whether you can calm down, even if it's just a bit. There is something to be said for an era in which all kinds of curiosities can be published. Self-help, pop psychology and pseudo religion have been huge for twenty years and so why not this?

It's perhaps rather long and the points could have been made in a more economical way. It's also not so good on a second reading, but oh well, Pooh would not have minded any of that at all . . .

For anyone that thinks they think!
Taoism (pronounced Daoism) is an easy concept to grasp, but like all ways of thought can be a bit dry to swallow. The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet provides a much more palatable form to digest this ancient Chinese philosophy. It is even possible to see how the application of the ideas exhibited in The Tao of Pooh over the next ten years was able to influence the writing of the Te of Piglet, which is an even easier read, but provides even more depth. An outstanding two books in one cover.

Fun yet informative.
When I came across this book in the philosophy section of a bookstore I was both amazed and confused. I wanted to know more about so I picked it up and read the synopsis. I was so intrigued by it that I decided to buy the book. Reading the book for the first time I felt like a child again, the way the writer structured the book as a story made it so much easier to understand the complexity of Taoism. Well worth the read if you want to be enlightened and amused at the same time.