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Through his life it was all anyone wanted to talk about, so he didn’t really like it. Was Christopher Robin happy he appeared in the books?Īpparently not.

Since then over 50million copies of Winnie the Pooh books have been sold! 10. When the first book was release, it was an instant hit, selling 35,000 copies in the UK and over 150,000 copies in America. How many Winnie the Pooh books have been sold? The date was chosen in honour of the creator A.A. The 18th January is what you need to put into your diary. There is an international Winnie the Pooh day! In the book Pooh delivered a special present to the Queen – one of his special hums! 8. The story was written by Jane Riordan and it was illustrated in the same style as the original books. In it, Pooh bear goes to visit the Queen to celebrate. The Queen and Winnie The Pooh were both born in the same year – 1926.Ī new story was created to celebrate their their joint 90th birthday. The Queen and Winnie the Pooh share the same birthday The swan is first mentioned in the poetry book When We Were Very Young. It’s thought that Christopher Robin called the swan Pooh, because he was worried he would look silly if the swan didn’t respond to his calls – but this way people would just thing he was saying “oh Pooh!”.

C hristopher Robin would feed the swan every morning and this inspired A.A Milne to create the name Winnie-The-Pooh. Pooh was a name given to a swan that Christopher Robin and his father saw when they were on holiday in West Sussex. Where does the Pooh part of the name come from? You can see most of the original todays that inspired AA Milne at the New York Public Library. The Hundred Acre Wood that they all live in, closely resembles Ashdown Forest, somewhere the Milne family had a nearby home. Owl and Rabbit weren’t based on any real toys. In real life, Christopher Milne played with a stuffed piglet, a tiger, a pair of kangaroos and a downtrodden donkey. Where did the other Winnie the Pooh characters come from? The real London Zoo bear was called Winnie because it came from Winnipeg in Canada, after being donated by a Canadian soldier who had to go to Europe during World War I. There was a famous black bear, called Winnie, that lived at London Zoo then – this was the inspiration for the change of name for Christopher Robin’s teddy bear. The bear was originally named Edward, but it was changed to Winnie after A.A. Milne gave Christopher a stuffed teddy bear for his first birthday that he had bought at Harrods, the famous shop in London. He was a real teddy bear owned by Christopher Robin.

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