How Winnie The Pooh Came To Be

Learn about the history of Winnie The Pooh and how he came to be, along with a neat look at the author who created him, A.A., Milne.

Winnie The Pooh and his beloved friends have been delighting children for nearly 90 years and counting now!

Thanks to the imagination of A.A. Milne dear Winnie has become a favorite book, show, play a stuffed animal, and movie to many.
Let’s take a trip through time to find our how Winnie The Pooh came to be!

“I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” – A.A. Milne

The man who brought us Winnie:  A.A Milne

 He received his BA in mathematics from Cambridge before focusing on writing. He was hired to produce humorous pieces for the magazine “Punch”,  a British weekly magazine of humor and satire. During this time he played on a cricket team with future beloved authors J.M. Barrie ( Peter Pan)  and Arthur Conan Doyle ( Sherlock Holmes)

 He served in World War from 1915-1919, enlisting in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and then worked in the Royal Corps of Signals. Milne became a lieutenant but was discharged while injured and settled in London with his wife where his son Christopher Robin was born in 1920

During his military service, Milne had written his first play, a one-act farce. He became a success as a playwright, publishing 18 plays and three novels including a detective story. In 1924 he published a collection of children’s poems titled “When We Were Very Young” inspired by his four-year-old son’s and followed by another 2nd collection of poems 

Not yet known as Pooh, Winnie The Pooh first appeared as a poem “Teddy Bear,” published in Punch magazine in February 1924. Winnie the Pooh was unveiled on the London Evening News on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called “The Wrong Sort Of Bees.” The first Winnie-the-Pooh story classic “Winnie the Pooh” published in 1926 Followed in 1928 by ” The house at Pooh corner” and thus the adventures of Winnie The Pooh began! 

 FUN FACTS:
Many of the locations of the fictional Hundred Acre Wood derive directly from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest and now serve as popular tourist spots!

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