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He named her “Winnie” after his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and left her at the zoo while he served in France, eventually donating her to the zoo as her permanent home. This had been bought for $20 in Ontario and surreptitiously brought into England by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn while on route to serve in the First World War. Christopher Robin’s teddy bear was named Winnie, after a real bear he saw at the London Zoo. There is a wonderful Canadian connection to the books. Another place to add to my bucket list! Picture from Wikicommon The bear pictured here was Christopher Robin’s though, the original Winnie The Pooh.These are on display in the Main Branch of the New York Public Library. The Pooh bear in the books was modelled after Shepard’s son’s teddy bear, named Growler. Shepard used as the basis for his illustrations. These are Christopher Robin’s actual stuffed toys which E.H.

He wrote the first stage adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, called Toad of Toad Hall, in 1926.

Although he continued to write and publish up until the 1950s nothing gave him the same success as the Pooh books. He became annoyed by the Pooh books, as their success hampered his previous freedom to write widely and be accepted in other literary endeavours.

Besides Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner (published 1928), Milne wrote novels, poetry, short stories, articles, non-fiction books, and a great deal of plays.

Christopher Robin Milne was his only child, and of course is a main character in the Pooh books (I knew this, but perhaps you didn’t?).

My worldview just doesn’t fit with wonderful writers who are also good with numbers….what gives? Like Lewis Carroll, he also was a mathematician, and graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge.Barrie (a playwright he greatly admired, author of Peter Pan) and Arthur Conan Doyle (author of the Sherlock Holmes stories) He played on an amateur cricket team with J.One of his teachers in the small public school he attended (which was run by his.In doing a bit of Google-searching on Alan Alexander Milne I found out the following fun facts: This book is warm, comforting, gentle, and kind, and I very much enjoyed my time immersed in it once again.īesides reading the books themselves, one of the things I have enjoyed the most about my series this year is the opportunity to find out more about the authors. Reading this book is like wrapping yourself up in a big cushy blanket while you are sipping tea and sitting by the fire. My well-loved copy, a 1950 edition, given to my older siblings in 1951 and discovered by me on the bookshelves sometime in the 1960s….