National Winnie the Pooh Day is a fun annual celebration observed on January 18th of every year. Pooh Bear in the tales and cartoons has got a bigger number of fans. The honey-loving bear has taken a significant place in the heart of many people, most notably the children. National Winnie the Pooh Day is one special day in the year which cannot be missed by the Pooh fans. It is a fun celebration Day that celebrates Winnie the Pooh and his friends. The Day is created to honor A.A. Milne, the author of Winnie the Pooh, who brought the bear to life with his stories.
History of Winnie the Pooh day
The origin, history, and the founder of the National Winnie the Pooh Day are anonymous. The year since when this Day has been celebrated is also not mentioned anywhere. However, one could assume that the idea for this Day would have come from a person who was fond of Winnie the Pooh. Winnie the Pooh Day has been celebrated on this date as it was the birth anniversary of A.A. Milne,who was born on January 18, 1882. Milne was an English author who created the fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear called Winnie the Pooh. The author had named the character Winnie-the-Pooh from a teddy bear owned by his son Christopher Robin Milne.
The author’s son had inspired by the Canadian black bear named Winnie who lived at the London Zoo during World War I. Christopher Robin visits the bear often, and thus he named his own teddy bear after her and a swan named Pooh which he met while on vacation. Christopher Robin was also the basis for the character Christopher Robin. The Winnie the Pooh has got its first printed page appearance in 1926 along with its friends Piglet, Tiger, and Eeyore. In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, one could get the explanation from Milne for why the Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply “Pooh.” Disney had bought the rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh characters in the 1960s and dropped the hyphen from Pooh’s name.
Some fun facts about Winnie the pooh
1.Though A.A. Milne was British, Winnie-the-Pooh was not. The real bear who inspired him, Winnie, was a Canadian female black bear.
2.Colebourn, originally from Winnipeg, found the bear cub on a train platform in White River, Ont.¹ War trains would routinely stop in White River for four to six hours for maintenance and supplies, and to let the horses off for food and water.
3.When the time came to ship out to France, Colebourn drove Winnie to the London Zoo. His intention was to loan Winnie to the zoo during the war. Her stay there started on Dec. 9, 1914.
4.The bear was originally called Edward, but Milne and his son eventually renamed the stuffed teddy Winnie after the adorable black bear at the London Zoo.
5. Winnie the pooh was the only Latin translation which made the best seller in New York times.
6.The original stuffed animals can still be seen on display. Since 1987, Pooh and his friends, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tiger, have all found a home at the New York Public Library's flagship Stephen A. Schwarzman building. Visitors from all over can go and see the original stuffed animals that inspired the beloved storybook characters.
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