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This week, in honor of Winnie the Pooh Day on January 18, Tidbits cuddles up with that silly old bear. • A.A. Milne, the author who created Winnie the Pooh, was born in London on January 18, 1882, hence the date of this commemoration. Alan Alexander Milne was already a successful playwright, author of mysteries, and writer for Punch magazine before Pooh was published, but the success of the stories about his son’s bear overshadowed his other work. • Milne had already served in the British Army in World War I before Pooh, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II after the stories were published. • Milne’s son Christopher Robin was born in 1920, and became the model for the character in the Pooh books. For his first birthday, Christopher, who was mostly called Billy, received a stuffed bear from Harrod’s Department Store in London from his mother. The bear was given the name of Edward, and sometimes Big Bear, or Teddy Bear. A.A. Milne first wrote of Edward in a poem published in a 1924 edition of Punch, and later in a collection of children’s poetry called When We Were Very Young. turn the page for more!

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WINNIE THE POOH (continued): • During World War I, in faraway Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a young lieutenant named Harry Colebourn boarded a train along with other troops being transported to eastern Canada for their deployment to Europe. When the train stopped in Ontario, Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub from a hunter who had killed its mother. He paid $20 for the little cub that he named Winnipeg, nicknaming her Winnie. The bear cub traveled to London with the troops and became the mascot of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. • When the Canadians shipped out for France, Winnie was loaned to the London Zoo. She quickly became the favorite animal of Christopher Milne, and the bear was so tame, that the boy was allowed to spend time in Winnie’s cage feeding her. The stuffed Edward Bear’s name was soon changed to Winnie. “Pooh” was the name of a swan the Milnes had encountered while on a holiday vacation. And Winnie the Pooh was born. • A.A. Milne began a series of stories about the “bear of very little brain,” centered around the only human character named Christopher Robin for his own son. He incorporated his son’s other toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and Tigger, into his stories. Piglet had been a gift to Christopher from their neighbors, while Eeyore had been a Christmas gift in 1921, the boy’s second Christmas. Kanga and Roo were added to the nursery in 1925. Milne invented two more characters, Owl and Rabbit, to round out the band of friends. Milne created a setting of the Hundred Acre Wood, based on the Five Hundred Acre Wood located in East Sussex, England’s Ashdown Forest. The Milne family lived at Cotchford Farm, on the northern edge of the forest. Cont'd next page!

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