10 Facts About Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh's father had bought him the toy bear in 1921 from Harrods department store.

Winnie-the-Pooh named the bear Winnie after his adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England.

Shepard's illustrations for the Winnie-the-Pooh books were directly inspired by the distinctive landscape of Ashdown Forest, with its high, open heathlands of heather, gorse, bracken and silver birch, punctuated by hilltop clumps of pine trees.

Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on 24 December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper Evening News.

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Winnie-the-Pooh was renamed after an American black bear at London Zoo called Winnie who got her name from the fact that her owner had come from Winnipeg, Canada.

Winnie-the-Pooh's kind-heartedness means he goes out of his way to be friendly to Eeyore, visiting him and bringing him a birthday present and building him a house, despite receiving mostly disdain from Eeyore in return.

In 2016, Winnie-the-Pooh Meets the Queen was published to mark the 90th anniversary of Milne's creation and the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.

In 1951, RCA Records released four stories of Winnie-the-Pooh, narrated by Jimmy Stewart and featuring the voices of Cecil Roy as Pooh, Madeleine Pierce as Piglet, Betty Jane Tyler as Kanga, Merrill Joels as Eeyore, Arnold Stang as Rabbit, Frank Milano as Owl, and Sandy Fussell as Christopher Robin.

Winnie-the-Pooh is usually seen with a stuffed Winnie-the-Pooh during his figure skating competitions.