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Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh, collection of children's stories by A.A. Milne, published in 1926. Milne wrote
the episodic stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and its sequel, The House at Pooh Corner (1928), for
his young son, Christopher Robin, whose toy animals were the basis for many of the
characters and whose name was used for the young boy who appears in the tales as the
benign master of the animals.
The main character, Winnie-the-Pooh (sometimes called simply Pooh or Edward Bear), is a
good-natured, yellow-furred, honey-loving bear who lives in the Forest surrounding the
Hundred Acre Wood (modeled after Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England). His
companions are Eeyore, a gloomy gray donkey; Piglet, a timid pig; Owl, a pontificating bird;
the meddlesome Rabbit; and Kanga, an energetic kangaroo whose inquisitive baby, Roo,
lives in her pouch.

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(born 1929)
Pooh, a self-described “Bear of Very Little Brain,” gets himself into all kinds of sticky situations,
and the book's 10 chapters recount his various adventures. In the first chapter, Pooh hears
bees in the treetop and believes they must be making honey. After unsuccessfully attempting to
climb the tree, he uses a balloon to pretend he is a cloud, but the bees are suspicious. Deciding
they are the wrong sort of bees, Pooh realizes he is unable to get down, and he enlists the help
of Christopher Robin, who pops the balloon with a gun. In a later adventure, Pooh visits Rabbit
and, after eating too much, gets stuck in Rabbit's doorway. For the next week, Pooh fasts while
Christopher Robin keeps him company. Finally he is slim enough for the others to pull him free.
Pooh's kindness is also evident, notably when he finds Eeyore's missing tail in chapter four.
Later in the book Pooh demonstrates his bravery when he and Christopher Robin set off in an
upturned umbrella to rescue Piglet from a flood.