A review by rissapappas
The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

5.0

The Tao Te Ching may be THE foundational Taoist text, but The Tao of Pooh is MY foundational Taoist text. I don't even care about Winnie the Pooh. It was never my thing. But the way Hoff uses the ubiquitous Pooh characters too explain the heady principles of Taoism makes this one of the most accessible books on the subject. Now, the Te of Piglet was new to me and frankly, compared to Tao of Pooh, it sucks. It does a lot of preaching and takes a very whiny tone of the "things are crazy these days and they used to be perfect" ilk which I cannot stand, especially coming from a white guy. I've never even seen a picture of the guy and I know he's white because of his total self assurance and complete lack of humility. This isn't an issue in the Tao of Pooh, so I cannot recommend that book enough. But Te of Piglet annoyed me much more than it helped me.