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Harry Colebourn and Winnie in 1914 / Endel Lepp and Kumari Vaim in 2020

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Christopher Robin had named his toy bear Edward, then Winnie, after a Canadian black bear Winnie that he often saw at London Zoo, and Pooh, a friend's pet swan they had encountered while on holiday.[15][16][17] The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for C$20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, while en route to England during the First World War.[18] Colebourn, a veterinary officer with the Fort Garry Horse cavalry regiment, named the bear Winnie after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.[19][20] Winnie was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much-loved attraction there.[21] Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.[22]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh 

Winnie-the-Pooh 

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This article is about the original character. For the Disney character, see Winnie the Pooh (Disney character). For other uses, see Winnie-the-Pooh (disambiguation).

"Pooh Bear" and "Pooh" redirect here. For the musician, see Poo Bear. For other uses, see Pooh (disambiguation). 

Winnie-the-Pooh (also known as Edward Bear, Pooh Bear or simply Pooh) is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by the English author A. A. Milne and the English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. The character is inspired by a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store, and a bear named Winnie they had viewed at London Zoo.

The first collection of stories about the character is the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The stories are set in and around the Hundred Acre Wood, which was inspired by Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex—situated 30 miles (48 km) south of London—where the Londoner Milne's country home was located.

The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958 and in 1960 became the only Latin book ever to be featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.^[1] The original English manuscripts are held at the Wren Library in Trinity College, Cambridge (Milne's alma mater), to which he had bequeathed the works.^[2] The first Pooh book was ranked number 7 on the BBC's The Big Read poll.^[3]

In 1961, The Walt Disney Company licensed certain films and other rights of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne and the licensing agent Stephen Slesinger, Inc., and adapted the Pooh stories, using the unhyphenated name "Winnie the Pooh", into a series of features that would eventually become one of its most successful franchises. In popular film adaptations, Pooh has been voiced by the actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English, and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian. 

History

Origin 

A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, on whom the character Christopher Robin was based. Milne had bought the toy bear in 1921 from Harrods department store in London.^[4][5] E. H. Shepard, in turn, based his illustrations of Pooh on his own son's teddy bear named Growler, instead of Christopher Robin's bear.^[6] The rest of Christopher Milne's toys – Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger – were incorporated into Milne's stories.^[7][8] Two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, were created by Milne's imagination. Gopher was created for the Disney-produced films. 

In 1947, the toys came to the US in the custody of Milne's US publisher, with whom they remained until 1987. The publisher then donated the toys to the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York City where they have been on display ever since.^[10][11][12] In April 2026, during a state visit to the United States, Queen Camilla donated a replica Roo (the original one was lost in the 1930s) to the Library to complete the collection.^[13][14]

Christopher Robin had named his toy bear Edward, then Winnie, after a Canadian black bear Winnie that he often saw at London Zoo, and Pooh, a friend's pet swan they had encountered while on holiday.^[15][16][17] The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for C$20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, while en route to England during the First World War.^[18] Colebourn, a veterinary officer with the Fort Garry Horse cavalry regiment, named the bear Winnie after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[19][20] Winnie was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much-loved attraction there.^[21] Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.^[22] 

In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often simply known as "Pooh":

But his arms were so stiff … they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always called Pooh.

American writer William Safire surmised that the Milnes' invention of the name "Winnie the Pooh" may have also been influenced by the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885).^[23]

A bronze sculpture of Winnie as a young cub, created by Lorne McKean, was unveiled at London Zoo in September 1981 by Christopher Robin.^[24] The skull of Winnie is displayed at the Hunterian Museum in London, the location of anatomical exhibits of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with a 2015 examination of the skull showing that she suffered from chronic periodontitis, an inflammation and loss of connective tissues supporting or surrounding the teeth, which can be caused by poor diet, such as the honey Christopher Robin spoon fed her.^[25] 

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