Piglet is a small piglet who is a good friend of Pooh in the Winnie the Pooh stories. Piglet is Pooh's best friend other than Christopher Robin although he as called "Henry Pootel". He has constant fear of the dark and is anxious about most things. Despite the fact that he is a very small animal, he often conquers his fears. In the original colour versions of the Winnie the Pooh books Piglet has white skin and a green jumper rather than the pink skin and jumper that he has acquired from Disney.

Piglet spells his name "Piglit".

The first appearance of the character in the Disney film adaptations was in 1968, in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. His voice was that of John Fiedler [1], who has also voiced Piglet as late as the 2005 film Pooh's Heffalump Movie. The character of Piglet was also changed by Disney, "replaced the character of Piglet with a gopher, which they thought had a more folksy, all-American, grass-roots image," according to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman quote from [2]

"The Te of Piglet" ISBN 0140096221 was written by Benjamin Hoff following the publication of "The Tao of Pooh". Both books feature the original drawing of E. H. Shepard. Here is a quotation, found at [3]

"Because you see, Owl, if we could get Piglet into the
letter-box, he might squeeze through the place where the
letters come, and climb down the tree and run for help." 

External Links

• Christopher Robin's Toys were the original inspiration.
• Pooh Corner at pooh-corner.com
• Pooh Corner at pooh-corner.org