Winnie The Pooh Bean Plush Set (3 pcs) - Pooh Eeyore & Tigger
As for Pooh, Tigger, and Eeyore, they will always remain in that Hall of the Greats, specially loved. I recently gave this trio to my two great-nieces with birthdays just four days apart (plus three years), one three, one six. Their mother absolutely loved the Pooh when she was the same age, so I am sure the tradition will continue.
As described in Amazon's product information, each stuffed animal is 12-13 inches, soft and plush, with no dangerous external parts that can come off. The only way that these animals can be destroyed is to love them to pieces (much like the Velveteen Rabbit,
another perennial favorite) 
Bunglie Bunny Plush Toy (Colors May Vary)--this is the closest I could find to the rabbit in the Amazon storehouse.) Case in point: The three year old insisted that I tie her helium balloon with colorful ribbon streamers to her Pooh. So I tied them to an arm. "No, neck," she indignantly told me. "Neck?" I quizzed. "He will choke with ribbons tied around his neck." "Neck," she insisted. So, neck it was. Then up and down, up and down, she tossed poor ol' Pooh. He'll survive. He always does. Technically, this is not the exact trio I bought for my nieces, but it is close. Actually, Kohl's department store is continuing its campaign of offering special books for $5 accompanied by special plush toys, each for $5. Money goes toward a children's health and education fund. This campaign features three new and beautiful stories about Pooh and friends created by the Disney team (I also could not find any of these at Amazon. Maybe soon.) For more information about the plush toys, books, and Kohl's contribution: http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/kids/kck.jsp
Not only did I buy a set of animals and books for my nieces, but also for my school library. This week I have girls (the boys and girls alternate weeks between Art and Library for smaller classes in each subject). I read "Winnie the Pooh: Nature's True Colors" while the girls held the three plush animals. Every couple of minutes I would have the girls pass the animals to another so that by the end each girl had held all three.
In this particular book Pooh and Roo went "a rambling" (for a non-directed walk in nature, but more directed to experiencing whatever they encountered: sky colors, wind rustling, brown toads, and so on).At the conclusion I told them we were going "a rambling" (actually, next door to our Catholic school is the cathedral and a lovely prayer garden with benches in quiet nooks. So, despite the 100 degree heat, we went "a rambling." Perhaps it might have gone better if one of the girls wasn't all id (Freud) and concerned that she be the first to hold Pooh, the first to have a bench and oh, so and so MUST sit with her, and "Oh, I saw that bench first! I'm sitting there." Somewhere our rambling lost its focus.
Yes, thank you, most of the other girls enjoyed this quiet, simple endeavor: smelled the flowers, admired the bees buzzing around the water flowing over the rocks in the water fountain. In fact, they (we) were fascinated by all the bees landing on the thin layer of water flowing over the watermelon-sized rocks surrounding the base of the actual fountain. One group quietly found the only bench in the shade and quietly sat and listened to the wind blowing through the leaves and tall, decorative grasses. I was delighted that they made the connection with the story of the ssshhhhhhh sound of the rustling.
I look forward to trying this experiment with the fourth and fifth grade girls Friday afternoon and will report then its success or lack thereof.
At any rate: Live long, Pooh!
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