(The characters are so well-known that some people have even formed a theory they represent mental illnesses.)Īfter A.A. Disney even eliminated the hyphens from his name. Pooh's forest companions - Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Rabbit, Kanga, Roo, Owl, and Christopher Robin - are different, too, in both looks and personality. Shepard and Milne's bear is different in many ways from the Disney version, from how he looks, to the way he speaks, and the adventures he gets caught up in. Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh, published in 1926, and The House at Pooh Corner, published in 1928. The real Pooh (AKA "Classic Pooh") is the bear as drawn by illustrator E.H. The "Pooh" was based on Milne's name for a swan he liked to feed.īeyond his name, the real Winnie-the-Pooh is not the grinning, yellow, red-shirted bear you are familiar with from the Disney films, TV shows, theme parks, and merchandise galore.
First, he was born "Edward." When a little boy named Christopher Robin Milne received him as a teddy bear in 1921, purchased from Harrods in London as a present for his 1st birthday, the toy's name was Edward - the proper form of "Teddy." Christopher later changed it to Winnie, after a bear he visited at the London Zoo. Winnie-the-Pooh is probably not who you think he is.
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