Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh
Naming
Others	Winnie the Pooh Pooh Bear Edward Bear Mr. Sanders The Pooh with a name
Personal information
Species	Teddy bear
Gender	Male
Date of birth	Sometimes rendered as August 21st, 1921 (the date Christopher Robin Milne received his Teddy bear)
Place of origin	Vicinity of the Hundred Acre Wood
Affiliation	Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, Gopher, Kessie, Lumpy, Christopher Robin
Current status	Active
Biology
Body type	Ursine
Diet	Omnivorous (mostly honey, though)
Sentience	Sentient
Sapience	Sapient
Behind the scenes
Universe	Winnie-the-Pooh
Created by	A. A. Milne
Designed by	E. H. Shepard
Performed by	Sterling Holloway Hal Smith Jim Cummings

Winnie-the-Pooh - a.k.a. Winnie the Pooh, without the hyphens - is a living, sapient (but not terribly intelligent, by his own admission) Teddy bear who lives in the vicinity of the Hundred Acre Wood. and is friends with a young boy named Christopher Robin, as well as with numerous other forest residents - both real animals and living toys. The hyphens on his name were present in his first literary appearances but dropped by the famous Disney adaptations, in which he is most often informally referred to as Pooh Bear or simply Pooh anyway.

Biography

Pooh lives "under the name Sanders" (since that name is literally written above his front door) in a house made of a hollowed tree in the vicinity of the Hundred Acre Wood. Said forest is located in England in the books, but believed to be somewhere in North America in the Disney version given the presence of Gopher - a species that doesn't inhabit the British Isles.

Pooh is a kind, optimistic, easy-going person and widely known for his love of honey, often going to great lengths in order to steal some from beehives or "borrow" some from his friends, especially Rabbit, who is bothered to no end by Pooh constantly consuming his entire stock of honey in a single visit.

As a self-described "bear of very little brain", Pooh often experiences difficulty communicating his thoughts and ideas, and prefers to use words of "one syllable or less". He is, however, smarter than he appears on some occasions. In the original books, Pooh also writes poetry as a hobby, an aspect of his character that doesn't appear much (if at all) in the Disney version.

Appearances

Literature

• When We Were Very Young, by A. A. Milne (1924) (First appearance)
• Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne (1926) (First identified as Winnie-the-Pooh)
• Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne (1927)
• The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne (1928)

Film and television

• Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966)
• Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)
• Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974)
• Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983)
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-1991)
• Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too (1991)
• Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh (1996)
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
• A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
• Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999)
• Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999)
• The Tigger Movie (2000)
• The Book of Pooh (2001-2004)
• Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002)
• Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
• Christopher Robin (2018)

Video Games

• Kingdom Hearts (2002)
• Kingdom Hearts II (2006)

Gallery

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Christopher Robin

Notes

• The character of Pooh is based on the Teddy bear owned by author A. A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin Milne, who himself inspired the character of Christopher Robin.
• The game of poohsticks, invented by Pooh - where competitors drop a stick into a river from a bridge and wait to see which stick crosses the finish line first - has been adopted as an actual sport in real life, with an annual world championship taking place in Oxfordshire.
• In April 11, 2006, Pooh was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

See also

• Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey)