Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

Christopher Robin Milne's own toys are now under glass in New York.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

After Milne's death in 1956, his widow sold her rights to the Pooh characters to the Walt Disney Company, which has made many Pooh cartoon movies, a Disney Channel television show, as well as Pooh-related merchandise.

* Two People ( 1931 ) ( Inside jacket claims this is Milne's first attempt at a novel.

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

A. Milne's profile at Just-Pooh. com

Shepard modelled Pooh not on the toy owned by Christopher Robin, Milne's son, but on " Growler ", a stuffed bear owned by his own son.

A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories, is cuddly and likable.

* October 14 – Alan Alexander Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh is released.

A. Milne's poem " In the dark ", in Now We Are Six, has been noted for its emulation of crib talk, a form of monologue word play used by infants to practice phonology, syntax and conversation skills

A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books and the Disney spin-offs

A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner.

Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals.

Like most of the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh, Tigger was based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed animals, in this case a stuffed-toy tiger.

The first took place during the 1930s, triggered by Dingle's criticism of E. A. Milne's cosmological model and the associated theoretical methodology, which Dingle considered overly speculative and not based on empirical data.

A. Milne's The Red House Mystery ( 1922 ), by the author of the Winnie the Pooh books.

A. Milne's own son, Christopher Robin Milne, who in later life became unhappy with the use of his name, writing in one of a series of autobiographical works: " It seemed to me almost that my father had got where he was by climbing on my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and left me nothing but empty fame ".

He is somewhat less caustic and sarcastic in the Disney version than in Alan Milne's original stories.

A collection of short stories for children Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.

The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

* Winnie-the-Pooh ( 1926 ) ( illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard )

A. Milne, after whom the character Christopher Robin in the Winnie-the-Pooh books was named, used to own the Harbour Bookshop.

He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A.

Happy with the results, Milne insisted Shepard illustrate Winnie-the-Pooh.

A. Milne ( author of Winnie-the-Pooh ) and the person on whom Christopher Robin was based, lived with myasthenia gravis for several years before his death in 1996.

* 1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.

* E. H. Shepard ( who also illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh )

A. Milne, granting Stephen Slesinger U. S. and Canadian merchandising rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works.

* Piglet ( Winnie-the-Pooh ), the fictional character from A.

The real stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.

He was the lawman who survived more gunfights than any other famous gun-slinging character in the book.

He took out a small packet filled with bits of charcoal, a deep pot of thin metal, some sheets of newspaper, a book of matches and a wrinkled and many-times folded piece of tin foil with holes in it.

Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.

Willard Thorp, in his new book, American Writing In The Twentieth Century, observes, quite validly it seems: `` Certain subjects are conspicuously absent or have been only lightly touched.

And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

Lubell offers his book as an explanation of why there was no clue.

And let me add Murray's new book as another symptom of it, particularly so in view of the attention Time magazine gave it when it came out recently.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

In the last pages of the book Sibylla comes to Rome to seek an audience with the great Pope and to give her confession.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

These narratives of coarse action and crude language appeared first in local newspapers, as a rule, and later found their way between book covers, though rarely into the planters' libraries beside the morocco-bound volumes of Horace, Mr. Addison, Mr. Pope, and Sir Walter Scott.

More likely, you simply told yourself, as you handed us the book, that it mattered little what we incanted providing we underwent the discipline of incantation.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

Steele apparently professed his sentiments in this book too openly and honestly for his own good, since the government was soon to use it as evidence against him in his trial before the House.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

Nineteenth-century virtues, however, seem somehow to have gone out of fashion and the Bright book has never been particularly popular.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.