Hyphen in the name of the character later dropped when The Walt Disney Company, Poe stories to a series of Winnie the Pooh featurettes that one of the most successful companies around the world the election had been modified.

Poe stories have been translated into many languages, especially Latin translation of Alexander Lenard, Winnie Ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and in 1960 the first foreign language titles in the New York Times bestseller list was scheduled to report is only Latin've than ever before in a paper presented to them.


Milne named the character Winnie the Pooh teddy bear owned by his son Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character Christopher Robin. The toys also lent its name to most other characters, except for Owl and Rabbit, who were probably based on real animals, and the Gopher character, which was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin toy bear is now on display at the Donnell Library Center Central Children's Fund meetings in New York. [1]
Harry born Winnie Cole 1914
Harry born Winnie Cole 1914

Christopher Milne had named his teddy after Winnipeg, is responsible for his father often saw at London Zoo, and "Winnie", a swan they met while he was on vacation. Winnipeg Bear was purchased from the fisherman is $ 20 Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. It should be named "Winnipeg" after his hometown in Winnipeg. "Winnie", as was known, was secretly brought to England for his owner, and the honor informal Regiment mascot. Colebourn left Winnie in London Zoo, where his unit was in France after the war was officially donated to the zoo because it has become a point of attraction much loved there. Among the many admirers of young Christopher Milne, who named his Teddy Bear "Teddy". [2] Tel swan is a sign in itself, and when we were very young.

The first chapter of Winnie the Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie the Pooh is often referred to simply as "Winnie", "but your hands were hard ..., respectively, remained in the air for more than a week, and when the fly came and settled down, and blows to the nose away. I think - but I'm not sure - that this is why he is always called the Bear. "

Milnes home, Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, is the basis for identifying and Winnie the Pooh stories. Fictitious name "Hundred Acre Wood" Remember five hundred Acre Wood, which is located right in the Ashdown Forest and includes some of the places mentioned in the book, such as the place enchanted.

Poohsticks origin of the game is to walk across the bridge site of the River Medway near Upper Hartfield, close to the house Milne Posingford farm. It is traditional to play the game there using sticks gathered in a nearby forest. When the footbridge required replacement in recent times, an engineer designing a new structure based closely on the fees (EH (sponsor) a bridge in the original books, because the bridge was not originally appear in the artist did it. It is the information board is a bridge, which describes aspects of how to play the game there. sometimes, the water authority is involved and a backhoe to remove a large block of stagnant Poohsticks that can accumulate in the bottom of the river downstream from the bridge in a timely manner, to the extent that is causing some localized flooding.