Everything about Piglet Winnie The Pooh totally explained
» This article is about the character in Winnie-the-Pooh. For the real-world animal, see Pig.
Piglet is a fictional character from
A. A. Milne's
Winnie-the-Pooh books. Piglet is a baby
pig who is the best friend of
Winnie-the-Pooh. Despite the fact that he's a "Very Small Animal" with a generally timid disposition, he often conquers his fears and seems to want to be brave.
Like most of the Pooh characters, Piglet was based on one of
Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals. In the original color versions of
Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations in the Winnie-the-Pooh books, Piglet has pale pink skin and a green jumper. He is the second shortest of the animals, with only
Roo being slightly smaller (although they're close enough in size that
Kanga can't tell the difference when Piglet jumps in her pouch instead of Roo). His voice is described as "squeaky".
Piglet is introduced in the text of Chapter III of Winnie-the-Pooh, although he's shown earlier in one of the illustrations for Chapter II (helping to pull Pooh out of
Rabbit's door). He also appears in Chapters V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X of that book, as well as being one of the few characters to appear in all ten chapters of
The House at Pooh Corner.
His adventures in the first book include hunting
Woozles, attempting to capture
Heffalumps, giving
Eeyore a birthday balloon (popped), impersonating Roo in an attempt to trick Kanga, joining the Expotition to the North Pole, and being trapped by a flood. In the second book, he helps build a house for Eeyore, meets
Tigger, finds Small while trapped in a gravel pit, plays
Poohsticks, gets lost in the mist, and helps rescue Pooh and
Owl after they're trapped in Owl's fallen house. For that last feat, Piglet is the subject of a seven-verse "Respectful Pooh Song" that Pooh composes for him.
Piglet himself can read and write, at least well enough for short notes. In the illustrations for
The House at Pooh Corner, it appears that Piglet spells his own name "Piglit", although it's rendered as "Piglet" in the actual text even when describing his signature. In one chapter, Piglet is referred to as "Henry Pootel" by Christopher Robin, who claimed to not recognize Piglet after he was thoroughly cleaned by
Kanga. Eeyore likes to refer to him as "Little Piglet".
Piglet's favorite food is
acorns (or as the book often spells it, "haycorns"). At one point he plants one just outside his house, in hopes of someday having a handy supply.
Piglet lives in a "very grand house in the middle of a beech tree" in the
Hundred Acre Wood, next to a sign which says "TRESPASSERS W". According to Piglet, that's short for "Trespassers William", his grandfather's name. Later in
The House at Pooh Corner, Eeyore mistakenly offers Piglet's house as a new home for Owl, after Owl's house had blown down. Piglet does a "Noble Thing" and agrees to let Owl have the house, at which point Pooh asks Piglet to live with him and Piglet accepts.
Piglet is best friends with
Pooh, and also seems especially close to
Christopher Robin. His other friends include
Rabbit,
Owl,
Kanga,
Roo,
Eeyore, and
Tigger (even if the latter makes him nervous on occasion).
Disney cartoon version
Although featured in every Disney interpretation of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet 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 was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more "folksy, all-American, grass-roots image".
Many familiar with the classic Milne books protested Disney's decision to exclude Piglet, and Disney relented. Piglet appeared in the next Pooh film,
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968).
John Fiedler provided the voice for Piglet from 1968 until his death on
June 25,
2005 (his last appearance as Piglet's voice was in
Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie).
Travis Oates has provided Piglet's voice since Fielder's death. He has voiced Piglet in
Kingdom Hearts II,
Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (only for the newest material since much of the dialogue is still voiced by Fielder) and the
My Friends Tigger & Pooh television series.
Disney's interpretation of Piglet has pink skin and a pink
jumper.
Piglet can be found at the
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts for meet and greets. He appears less frequently than Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore, but he's more common than the rare Rabbit. He also made a brief cameo in the 1988
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, seen in silhouette hanging onto the last car of a passing high-speed train in Toontown.
Piglet was featured as one of the guests in
House of Mouse. It was one of John Fielder's last works before his death.
Kingdom Hearts
He has also appeared in
Kingdom Hearts and
its sequel. In
Kingdom Hearts, is Pooh’s best friend in the 100 Acre Wood. Tiny and timid, Piglet is startled by just about anything and when that happens he covers his eyes with his floppy ears. He is voiced by
John Fiedler in the English version of
Kingdom Hearts and
Travis Oates in the English version of
Kingdom Hearts II. He is voiced by
Kiyoshi Komiyama in the Japanese version of
Kingdom Hearts and
Mitsuru Ogata in the Japanese version of
Kingdom Hearts II.
Influence on popular culture
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.
The Te of Piglet details Piglet's exemplification of the Taoist concept of "virtue of the small".
Also, On
June 19 2006, the
New York Times reported that Winnie the Pooh had been taken off the air in
Turkey by the state broadcaster TRT. The ban was due to the fact that Piglet is a pig, an animal considered unclean by
Muslims. Although TRT made no official announcements at the time, much of the Turkish press picked up the story. Even before the incident, Winnie the Pooh videos were already in circulation in Turkey and widely available in stores; the move was considered controversial since Turkey, although predominantly Muslim, is a strictly secular state.
The ban was later announced to be untrue, reported the
Finnish newspaper
Iltasanomat.
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Piglet has been censored in
Qatar. This has occurred when the character was blacked out of one copy of an illustrated book.
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