THE BEST OF POOH & HEFFALUMPS, TOO contains new songs by Carly Simon and classics from the 1960s by the Sherman Brothers. Parents will enjoy the classic Pooh songs where familiar character voices inspire a nostalgic journey to the Hundred Acre Wood. These songs are kid-friendly and fun, and have retained their spark of invention and appeal. In "The Wonderful Thing about Tigger," the wonderful message is "that I'm the only one!" Without preaching, it conveys a timeless lesson for young and old. Pooh is "Rumbly in My Tumbly" because, well, he's Pooh, and he can't get enough honey. In "Up Down and Touch the Ground," he exercises not to lose weight, but to increase his appetite, so he can eat more honey. The orchestration doesn't overpower; the instrumentation adds variety.

The songs from Disney's Pooh's Heffalump Movie are less successful than the classics. The best is "In the Name of the Hundred Acre Wood" with Carly Simon and the Heffalump Chorus, fifth-graders from Brooklyn. A mixture of foreboding with a peppy march in varied time, it asks, "What do you do when something new crosses your path out of the blue?" In others, an adult perception makes them less appealing to children and less inventive. In "Little Mr. Roo" the message is "don't grow up too fast" and in "Shoulder to Shoulder" it's a vague "I think I feel more like myself when I'm with you." Even a "Bear of Very Little Brain" might think of Something More Clever.