While Pooh Bear and Piglet were chasing Kanga’s tea towel, Tigger was on his very own quest. In the morning when he had gone out for a walk with Kanga and Roo, he and Roo had bounced around as they usually did and then Roo had bounced up at Kanga. He accidentally caught the necklace Kanga was wearing, and the string broke and all the pretty gemstones had fallen into the grass.

The three of them had hunted around for the scattered gemstones and Kanga had put them all into her pocket before they had gone back home. They still bounced, but Roo bounced a bit more carefully and Tigger did the same.

After she was home, Kanga had put the gems onto a new string, but when she counted them, she had found she was missing two. She said that it didn’t matter, but Tigger knew that really it did. He decided he would go back and have another look for the missing gemstones.

When Tigger reached the place where they had been playing in the morning, he had another careful look round, but he still couldn’t see the missing gemstones.

“If I were a gemstone,” he said to himself, “where would I bounce to?”

He stood where Kanga had been standing and tried to imagine he was Kanga. He put his tail straight out behind him, rather than curled round, and then stood with one front paw on top of the other. Then he said, “Ping!” and imagined he was a bouncing gemstone.

Now gemstones are much smaller than Tiggers – he knew he was the only one, but he was sure if there were by chance more Tiggers they’d be his size and much bigger than gemstones. So he made little gemstone-sized bounces, which took him to a small patch of plants, which had large leaves.

Carefully he lifted up one of the leaves and there, nestled underneath it, was one of Kanga’s gemstones. He lifted up some of the other leaves until he found the second gemstone.

Then he bounced back home, with one gemstone held firmly in each front paw.

Kanga was very happy to have her two missing gemstones back and promised to make Tigger his favourite tea.

And Roo told him all about how Pooh and Piglet had brought back the flying tea towel and bounced around showing Tigger how the tea towel had flown lots of places before Eeyore’s thistles had caught it for them.

And then Kanga told them both to go and wash their paws and faces so they would be ready for tea.