when was the first winnie the pooh book written?
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uring the first World War, troops from Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada) were being transported to eastern Canada, on their way to Europe, where they were to join the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. When the train stopped at White River, Ontario, a lieutenant called Harry Colebourn bought a small female black bear cub for $20 from a hunter who had killed its mother. He named her 'Winnipeg', after his hometown of Winnipeg, or 'Winnie' for short. \n   Winnie became the mascot of the Brigade and went to Britain with the unit. When the Brigade was posted to the battlefields of France, Colebourn, now a Captain, took Winnie to the London Zoo for a long loan. He formally presented the London Zoo with Winnie in December 1919 where he became a popular attraction and lived until 1934. \n\n   The bear was also very popular with Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. It was his favourite animal at the Zoo, and he often spent time inside the cage with it. The bear was Christopher Robin's inspiration for calling his own teddy bear Winnie.....Winnie the Pooh (this teddy bear started out with the name of Edward Bear). The name Pooh originally belonged to a swan, as can be seen in the introduction of Milne's 'When We Were Very Young'. \n\n   A.A. Milne started to write a series of books about Winnie the Pooh, his son Christopher Robin, and their friends in the 100-Acre-Wood. These other characters, such as Eeyore, Piglet, Tigger, Kanga and Roo were also based on stuffed animals belonging to Christopher Robin. The characters, Rabbit and Owl, were based on animals that lived, like the swan Pooh, in the surrounding area of Milne's country home, Cotchford Farm in Ashdown Forest, Sussex. It is this area on which the 100-Acre-Wood was based. \n\n   'Winnie-the-Pooh' was published by Methuen on October 14th, 1926, the verses 'Now We are Six' in 1927, and 'The House at Pooh Corner' in1928. All these books were illustrated in a beautiful way by E.H. Shepard, which made the books even more magical. The Pooh-books became firm favorites with old and young alike and have been translated into almost every known language. A conservative figure for the total sales of the four Methuen editions (including When We Were Very Young) up to the end of 1996 would be over 20 million copies. These figures do not include sales of the four books published by Dutton in Canada and the States, nor the foreign-language editions printed in more than 25 languages the world over! \n\n   The Pooh-books had also been favourites of Walt Disney's daughters and it inspired Disney to bring Pooh to film in 1966. In 1977 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the first feature-length animated film of Pooh was released. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company acknowledged that Pooh Bear is second only to Mickey Mouse in their portfolio of the most-loved and trusted characters known to millions of people all over the world. By 1996, after the second release of 'the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh', the Bear of Very Little Brain had proven to be more popular than any other Disney character. In 1997, twenty years after the release of the first feature-length animated film, Disney released 'Pooh's Grand Adventure', picking up where Disney's 22nd Masterpiece left off. In February 2000 Disney released the third Winnie the Pooh movie called 'The Tigger Movie', this time with the leading part for Tigger.\n  \n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n    \n\n\n\n\n\nwww.just-pooh.com/history.html
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I absolutely adore Pooh Bear, I have many keepsakes of him. Thank you for sharing that!  He is such a wonderful hearted character.
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English author (1849-1924)\nBiography:\n\nFrances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. Some years after his father's death, all her family moved to United States.\nHer reputation as a novelist was made with her story of Lancashire life, That Lass o' Lowrie's (published in 1877), Burnett's first novel, which had been serialized in Scribner's. The book already showed her talent to portray realistic working-class scenes, mixed with a romantic and most improvable plot. Later on, she had other novels published, like Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883), as well as a play, Esmeralda (1881). \nBut all these books were not to be her most successful work. In 1886, she published Little Lord Fauntleroy, a children's book which fascinated mothers, for they began dressing their sons in velvet suit with lace collar, like the main character of this book. \nHer later books include Sara Crew (1888), later rewritten as A Little Princess for drama, and her marvelous Secret Garden (1909). Both were children's books, and thanks to them, Burnett is quite well-known now-a-days.\n\nLittle Lord Fauntleroy, illustrated by Reginald Barthurts Birch, éd. Scribner, 1886. \nLe Petit Lord Fountleroy, illustrated by Marcel Bloch, Nelson, 1938. \nSecret Garden, illustrated by Thea Kliros, Dover Children's Thrift Classics, 1996.\nA Little Princess, illustrated by Thea Kliros, Dover Children's Thrift Classics, 1996.\nPetite princesse, illustrated by Marcel Bloch, 1934.\nSecret Garden, illustrated by Tasha Tudor, Harpercollins, 1987.\nSecret Garden, illustrated by Louis Lowry, Bantam Classics.\nLe jardin secret, illustrated bye Rozier-Gaudriault, Gallimard, 1992.
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Well...Pooh is a species.\nIt's just like saying...\nSPOT the DOG.\nInstead, now it's\nWINNIE the POOH.\nSo, Winnie is his name.
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I believe it was written in 1907.  Most of her poetry was written between 1909 and 1919.  \n\nThe websites I've attached may help.
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winnie the pooh..a fat bear that talks like an old man
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There was probably someone actually named Wally on the staff of the publishing house in America.\n\n16 NOV 06, 1544 hrs, GMT.
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Winnie the Pooh will always have a special place in my heart because of my daughter but as far as laughs for the whole family probably Ice Age!
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Yes.  I havent been this excited about pooh since i was a toddler. (pun intended)
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I think the book was "league of Grey-eyed Woman". Cartoon, yes, The Littles.
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Winnie the Pooh eats honey not Tigger!He hates honey,  I really don't know what he eats.
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dolld and stuffed animals i wanted books
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my little brother red a book that was something like that!\nthats funny how that happend.\ncheck a PUBLIC library in the kid section or my favourite EBAY!\ngood luck sweety
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The melody of "Happy Birthday to You" was written by American sisters Patty and Mildred Hill in 1893 when they were school teachers in Louisville, Kentucky. The verse was originally intended as a classroom greeting entitled "Good Morning to All". The version as we know it was copyrighted in 1935 by the Summy Company as an arrangement by Preston Ware Orem, and is scheduled to expire in 2030. This was the first copyrighted version to include the lyrics. The company holding the copyright was purchased by Warner Chappell in 1990 for $15 million dollars, with the value of "Happy Birthday" estimated at $5 million.  While the current copyright status of the song is unclear, Warner claims that unauthorized public performances of the song are technically illegal unless royalties are paid to them. It is not completely certain who wrote the lyrics to "Happy Birthday to You".
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JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were not only contemporaries they were friends and part of a writer's circle that used to meet in the Bird and Baby tavern to discuss, critique and support each other and their work.  \n\nTolkien would have to be said to have published first but it was The Hobbit that he published first. Lewis published the first part of his Chronicle of Narnia, The Lion,The Witch and the Wardrobe, before Tolkien published The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of Lord of the Rings.
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I have provided two links below.  One is for a 1st birthday and the other is for a generic birthday.  Both are a Winnie the Pooh design.  I hope this helps.  Have a Tiggeriffic day!
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Arlo Guthrie. He also wrote it.