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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 is 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 are close enough in size that
Kanga cannot 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 is 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.

Piglet is a
very small animal, but friendly and careful, such as to be for baby Roo. And he
keeps Christopher company to go to school. Piglet is probably Winnie's best
friend, and is sometimes a brave animal for such a timid pink pig. When he
is nervous his ears are twitching. Piglet wear
a long striped shirt. This shirt was earlier green, but Disney changed it in a
pink shirt. His favorite food is 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 WILL." According to Piglet, that is 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.
John Fiedler did the
voice for Piglet in the Disney Winnie the Pooh movies.

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 are 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 is rendered as "Piglet"
in the actual text even when describing his signature.

Pooh
Eeyore
Tigger
Christopher Robin
Rabbit
Kanga
Roo
Owl

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