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If Winnie is a Pooh, what is one? A Pooh I mean... Cos he looks like a yellow bear to me!?

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Yeah I was just looking at my Winnie the Pooh teddy and it made me wonder. So if anyone knows, please answer! Thanks!

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  1. History

    Christopher Milne had named his teddy after Winnipeg, a bear which he and his father often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. Winnipeg the Bear was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en-route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnipeg" after his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie", as she became known, was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as a regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there. Among her many young fans was Christopher Milne, who named his own teddy bear "Winnie".[2] Pooh the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very Young.


  2. he is a pooh bear

  3. Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh

    Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff

    He's Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh

    Willy nilly silly old bear

    Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh

    Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff

    He's Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh

    Willy nilly silly old bear


  4. winnie is the big pooh!!

  5. In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne, the author, offers this explanation of why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called just  "Pooh":

    "But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow it off. And I think - but I am not sure - that that is why he is always called Pooh."

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