What is "winnie-the-pooh"

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne. It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled "In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath." The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner.

Portions of the book were adapted from previously published stories. The first chapter, for instance, was adapted from "The Wrong Sort of Bees", a story published in the London Evening News in its issue for Christmas Eve 1925. The chapters in the book can be read independently of each other, as they are episodic in nature and plots do not carry over from one chapter to the next. In 2003, Winnie the Pooh was listed at number 7 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

Winnie-the-Pooh is the central character in books by A. A. Milne.

Winnie-the-Pooh or Pooh Bear may also refer to:

• Winnie-the-Pooh (book), the first volume of stories about the fictional bear, published in 1926
• Winnie the Pooh (franchise), a Walt Disney franchise that includes TV series, feature films, and theme park appearances
  • Winnie the Pooh (character), a character in the franchise
  • "Winnie the Pooh" (song), a 1966 theme song written by the Sherman Brothers
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, a 1977 American animated film
  • Welcome to Pooh Corner, a live-action television series that aired from 1983 to 1986
  • The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, an animated television series that aired from 1988 to 1991
  • The Book of Pooh, a puppet television series that aired from 2001 to 2003
  • My Friends Tigger & Pooh, a computer-animated television series that aired from 2007 to 2010
  • Winnie the Pooh (2011 film), a 2011 American animated film
• Winnie-the-Pooh (1969 film), a 1969 Russian animated film by Soyuzmultfilm
• Jason Boyd (musician), American musician often credited as MDMA or Pooh Bear
• Óscar Guerrero Silva, Mexican drug lord known for his Winnie Pooh alias.

Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.

The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when the company adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that became one of its most successful franchises. In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.

Winnie-the-Pooh is a 1969 animated film by Soyuzmultfilm directed by Fyodor Khitruk. The film is based on chapter one in the book series by A. A. Milne. It is the first part of a trilogy, along with two sequels: Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit ( Винни-Пух идёт в гости'', 1971) and Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day ( Винни-Пух и день забот, 1972).