Christopher Robin Milne
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Christopher Robin Milne was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh s
Milne in 1928
Milne's childhood stuffed animals – the inspiration for characters in the Pooh stories – are now owned by the New York Public Library. (Roo was lost when Christopher Robin was nine years old.)
Winnie-the-Pooh
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Winnie-the-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 st
An early illustration by E. H. Shepard
Harry Colebourn and Winnie, 1914
Sculpture at London Zoo where Milne took his son Christopher Robin to see the amiable bear that inspired Milne to write the story