Winnie-the-Pooh, also known as Pooh Bear and Pooh, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear developed by English writer A. A. Milne along with English artist E. H. Shepard.

The book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) had been the very very first collection of stories about The character, followed by the home at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne published a poem about the bear in the children's poem collection Whenever we Were Very Young (1924) along with a lot more in Now We're 6 (1927). E. H. Shepard supplied the illustrations for the four volumes.

The Pooh stories are transcribed into a number of languages, like Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which launched in 1958 and became The 1st Latin book to be listed on the brand new York Times Best Seller list in 1960 .

In 1961, Walt Disney Productions acquired part of the movie rights along with other rights to Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories from the estate of A. A. Milne and Stephen Slesinger, Inc., and changed the Pooh stories into a number of animated features under the unhyphenated name "Winnie the Pooh." the series will become among Disney's best selling franchises.

For well known movie adaptations, Pooh is voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, along with Jim Cummings in English, along with Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.

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Military career and early life

Alan Alexander Milne came into this world in Kilburn, London, to John Vine Milne, who came into this world in Jamaica, and Sarah Marie Milne (nee Heginbotham), on eighteen January 1882. He were raised at Henley House School, 6/7 Mortimer Road (now Crescent), Kilburn, a little independent school run by his father.One of the teachers of his was H. G. Wells, who coached there in 1889 90.Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he learned on a mathematics scholarship, graduating with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1903. He edited and also published for Granta, a pupil magazine.

He collaborated with the brother Kenneth of his and also their content articles came out over the initials AKM. Milne's work found the interest of the major British humour magazine Punch, in which Milne was becoming a contributor and later on an assistant editor. Regarded as a gifted cricket fielder, Milne had for 2 amateur teams which were mostly made up of British writers: the Allahakbarries as well as the Authors XI. His teammates included fellow writers J. M. Barrie, P and Arthur Conan Doyle. G. Wodehouse.