10 Facinating Facts About Winnie the Pooh

1. The original stories written by A.A. Milne were about his son, Christopher Robin. The characters were based on the boy's stuffed toys, now on display at the New York Public Library.
2. The 100 Acre Wood was based on the Ashdown Forest in the south of England, near where the Milnes lived.
3. Before enjoying success with his children's books A.A. Milne wrote comedies and detective novels and was a writer for Punch Magazine.
4. The Latin translation of Winnie the Pooh was on the New York Bestsellers list in 1960.
5. As an adult, the real Christopher Robin made a living with his wife in Dartmouth in Devon as a bookseller. He also wrote five books.
6. Milne rarely read his own stories to his son, instead choosing to read P.G. Woodhouse at bedtime.
7. Ernest Shepard illustrated all four of the Pooh books, basing his now iconic drawings on his son's bear, Growler, not Christopher Robin's bear.
8. The most expensive copy of Winnie the Pooh sold on AbeBooks for $5,500 in December 2007.
9. The original illustrator, Ernest Shepard, had occasionally given Pooh a shirt during cold weather but those illustrations were in black and white. Winnie the Pooh was given his red shirt in 1932 by North American illustrator Stephen Slesinger.
10. Christopher Robin's Roo was lost in an orchard during the 1930s.
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