Piglet (Winnie the Pooh)

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Piglet is a fictional character from A. A. Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh. 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. 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 color versions of the Winnie-the-Pooh books Piglet has white skin and a green jumper rather than the pink skin and pink jumper that he has acquired from Disney.

Piglet spells his name "Piglit". Piglet was once referred to as "Henry Pootel" by Christopher Robin, who did not recognize Piglet after he was thoroughly cleaned by Kanga.

Piglet is known to many only through the Disney films and cartoon series. Interestingly, Piglet's character was originally omitted by Disney in the first Pooh film, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet had been replaced by a gopher, which Disney thought had a more "folksy, all-American, grass-roots image,"[1]. But Disney relented to pressure, particularly from the British, who were familiar with the classic Milne books, and added Piglet back into the story. The first appearance of the character in the Disney films was in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968). His voice was that of John Fiedler [2], who continued to voice the character until 2005's Pooh's Heffalump Movie. Fiedler died several months later. Steven Schatzberg now provides the voice of Piglet for future Disney productions.

The Te of Piglet 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."

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