Tigger. The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers

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He is easily recognized by his orange and black stripes, beady eyes, a long chin, springy tail, and his love of bouncing.

As he says himself, "Bouncing is what he does best." Like other Pooh characters, he is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.

Winnie-the-Pooh's

Most of the rest of that chapter is taken up with the characters' search for a food that he can eat for breakfast - despite his claims to like "everything", it is quickly proven he does not like honey, acorns, thistles, or most of the contents of Kanga's pantry.

In a happy coincidence, however, he discovers what Tiggers really like best is extract of malt, which Kanga has on hand because she gives it to her son, Roo, as "strengthening medicine".

Kanga Pooh & Walt Disney

He becomes great friends with Roo (To whom he becomes a sort of older sibling figure), and Kanga treats him in much the same way she does her own son.

He also interacts enthusiastically with all the other characters — sometimes too enthusiastically for the likes of Rabbit, who sometimes seems exasperated by his constant bouncing, Eeyore, who is once bounced into the river by Tigger, and Piglet, who always seems a little nervous about the new, large, bouncy animal in the Forest. Nonetheless, the animals are all shown to be friends.

Disney & Pooh Corner

He is the only new major character to be introduced in The House at Pooh Corner; all of the others had been established in the earlier Winnie-the-Pooh book.

Walt Disney & Piglet

He is, however, capable of holding a pen with one of his front paws - at least well enough to make a BLOT.

Though he is described by Rabbit and Piglet as "large", he does not seem particularly big in the illustrations.

Pooh states once "He always seems bigger because of his bounces", implying that the other animals think of Tigger as being larger than he truly is.

Tiggers

He is cheerful, outgoing, competitive in a friendly way, and has complete confidence in himself.

Some of the things which he claims he can do include flying, jumping farther than a kangaroo, swimming, and climbing trees.

He never actually attempts any of the first three things in the course of the story, but he does try to climb a tree.

He only succeeds half-way, being able to climb up but not to climb down again.

Tigger also says Tiggers "never get lost";

unlike most of his other claims, this one seems to be true - he is able to find his way through the Forest even in a thick mist, despite Rabbit's attempts to lose him.

WAlt Disney & Christopher Robin

However, the word "tiger" is never actually used in the book.

The term "Tig-ger" is used instead, both as the character's name and as a description of his type of animal.

No other "Tigg-ers" appear in the story, and at one point he (who has just seen his reflection in a mirror and mistaken it for another individual) comments he thought he was the only one.

Despite that belief, he constantly uses the term in the plural, as in "Tigg-ers don't like honey." and "So that's what Tiggers like!", etc. The term is always capitalized.

You will see Tigger in, Magic-Kingdom Orlando Florida, riding an old fashioned Fire Engine down,

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