Latin book ever to have been featured on The

WINNIE THE BIOGRAPHY

New York Times Best Seller list.
Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear and
POOH Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear

created by English author A. A. Milne and

English illustrator E. H. Shepard.

The first collection of stories about the character

was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this

was followed by The House at Pooh Corner In 1961, Walt Disney Productions licensed

(1928). Milne also included a poem about the certain film and other rights of Milne's Winnie-

bear in the children's verse book When We Were the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne

Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We and the licensing agent Stephen Slesinger, Inc.,

Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated and adapted the Pooh stories, using the

by E. H. Shepard. unhyphenated name "Winnie the Pooh", into a

series of features that would eventually become

The Pooh stories have been translated into many
on n popular film adaptations, Pooh has been
languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin
voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith,
translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first
and Jim Cummings in English.
1926 published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only
 Pooh, a self-described “Bear of Very Little demonstrates his bravery when he and
CHARACTER
Brain,” gets himself into all kinds of sticky Christopher Robin set off in an upturned

The main character, Winnie-the-Pooh situations, and the book’s 10 chapters recount his umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood.

(sometimes called simply Pooh or Edward Bear), various adventures. In the first chapter, Pooh

is a good-natured, yellow-furred, honey-loving hears bees in the treetop and believes they must

bear who lives in the Forest surrounding the be making honey. After unsuccessfully

Hundred Acre Wood (modeled after Ashdown attempting to climb the tree, he uses a balloon to

Forest in East Sussex, England). His companions pretend he is a cloud, but the bees are suspicious.

are Eeyore, a gloomy gray donkey; Piglet, a Deciding they are the wrong sort of bees, Pooh

timid pig; Owl, a pontificating bird; the realizes he is unable to get down, and he enlists

meddlesome Rabbit; and Kanga, an energetic the help of Christopher Robin, who pops the

kangaroo whose inquisitive baby, Roo, lives in balloon with a gun. In a later adventure, Pooh

her pouch. visits Rabbit and, after eating too much, gets

stuck in Rabbit’s doorway. For the next week,

Pooh fasts while Christopher Robin keeps him

company. Finally he is slim enough for the others

to pull him free. Pooh’s kindness is also evident,

notably when he finds Eeyore’s missing tail in

chapter four. Later in the book Pooh