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.

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.

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.

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.

His terrace there was decorated with statues of characters from Winnie-the-Pooh that had been a gift from A.

The setting for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories was inspired by Ashdown Forest, near Milne's country home at Hartfield.

For Disney, Winchell was best known for voicing the character Tigger in Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh films, and won a Grammy Award for his performance in Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too.

Its color was also a deciding factor, as yellow is a primary color and easier for children to recognize from a distance, and with consideration to the fact the only other competing yellow mascot at the time was Winnie-the-Pooh.

According to a 1998 article published in the Queens Quarterly ( 105 / 4 ), by Ross Kilpatrick entitled " Winnie the Pooh and the Canadian Connection ," the first chapter of Milne's book entitled " Winnie-the-Pooh ", was adapted by Milne from " Teddy Bear's Bee Tree ," by Canadian author Charles G. D. Roberts.

Winnie-the-Pooh was shortly followed by The House at Pooh Corner, also by Milne.

Perhaps Shelley's single best-known role was as Winnie-the-Pooh in The Children's Hour adaptations of A.

In the 1930s and ' 40s he was a Children's Hour regular, famous as Dennis the Dachsund in Toytown, and as Winnie-the-Pooh, whom he first played in 1939.

As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems.

" His roles mainly consisted of small minute-long parts, until he won the role of Rabbit in Winnie-the-Pooh, and this was the first time that he was " consciously aware I was doing a performance " and that that " was better, even, than playing cards.

Milne was inspired by the beautiful landscape of Ashdown Forest to use it as the setting for his Winnie-the-Pooh stories, and many features from the stories can be identified with specific locations in the forest.

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.

* October 14-The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is published for the first time.

The book Winnie-the-Pooh is the second in a series of books published in the 1920s about Winnie the Pooh and friends.

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

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

Christopher Robin appears in Milne's poems and in the two books: Winnie-the-Pooh ( 1926 ) and The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ).

Heffalumps are mentioned, but never appear, in Winnie-the-Pooh ( 1926 ) and The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) and later featured in the animated The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh ( 1988 – 1991 ) and Pooh's Heffalump Movie ( 2005 ).

Winnie-the-Pooh ( 1926 ) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.

A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh ( book ) ( 1926 ) Christopher Robin lives " behind a green door in another part of the Forest " ( the 100 Acre Wood ).

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.

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

Christopher Robin has appeared on House of Mouse with his friends, but he is the only main Winnie-the-Pooh character not to appear in the Kingdom Hearts video game series ; in this continuity, the Winnie-the-Pooh book belongs to Merlin and Christopher Robin's role is played out mostly by Sora.

The original stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, with Eeyore on the right

Eeyore ( ) is a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.

In the Soviet Union, three Winnie-the-Pooh, ( transcribed in Russian as " Vinni Pukh ") ( Russian language: Винни-Пух ) stories were made into a celebrated trilogy of short films by Soyuzmultfilm ( directed by Fyodor Khitruk ) from 1969 to 1972.

The first appearance of Rabbit is in chapter II in the Winnie-the-Pooh book by A.

It is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A.

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.

A. Milne's stories as characters that interact with him while he writes The Tao of Pooh, but also quotes excerpts of their tales from Milne's actual books Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, in order to exemplify his points.

A. Milne's manuscript of Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.

* House of Mouse – Pete, Humphrey the Bear, King Louie, Big Bad Wolf, Censor Monkeys, the Hyenas ( Shenzi, Banzai and Ed ), Tigger, Winnie-the-Pooh, Gorilla, Kaa, Razoul, Tiki Masks, Weasels, Zeke, Cheshire Cat, Roquefort, Mister Stork, Jasper, Colonel Hathi, Cyril Proudbottom, Otto, Shun Gun, Boomer, Porcupine, Sexton Mouse, Deacon Owl, Gideon, Colonel, Flower, Sir Ector, King Duke, Doc

The House at Pooh Corner ( 1928 ) is the second volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A.

" The film, whose name is a play on the slogan " Tippecanoe and Tyler too " made famous during the 1840 United States presidential election, is based on the fourth and seventh chapters of The House at Pooh Corner, the second Winnie-the-Pooh book by A.

This bear, along with a real bear named " Winnie " that Milne saw at the London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the character of Winnie-the-Pooh.

The car park at the hilltop of Gills Lap, the Galleon's Leap of the Pooh stories (), contains a display panel with a map of the surrounding area and the features from several of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories marked on it.

The following places are shown on Shepard's map at the beginning of the Winnie-the-Pooh book: