Here are the most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) about Pooh and his
friends.
What
are Poohsticks?
Who Wrote
the Christopher Robin books?
What are they called?
Who illustrated them?
Where do they take place?
What happens in these books?
Was Christopher Robin real?
Some of these FAQ's can also be found at the Winnie the Pooh - FAQ - Your
Frequently Asked Questions
at Topher's Castle.
What are Poohsticks? Poohsticks aren't just a thing. It's a game invented by Pooh. You must play it on a
bridge. Mark a stick, and throw it in the water. The stream of the river will take
the stick to the other side of the bridge (if you throw the stick at the right side of the
bridge of course). The one with the stick that finishes first, is the winner of the game.
See for more details chapter 6 (In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in)
of the story The House at Pooh Corner.
If you want to play a game of poohsticks yourself, just visit the Virtual Poohsticks Site.
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Who Wrote the Christopher Robin books? Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956) , a
professional English writer who lived with his wife Dorothy, son Christopher Robin
"Moon" Milne and assorted servants, alternately on Mallord Street in Chelsea,
and at Cotchford Farm, near Hartfield. Milne wrote prolifically - twelve books of essays
from such periodicals as The Sphere, The Outlook, The Daily News, The Sunday Express,
Vanity Fair, and Punch , as well as more than twenty plays, five novels,
autobiographical material and assorted articles. Of these, only the play Toad of Toad
Hall (a dramatization of Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows ) and the novel Mr.
Pim Passes By received much acclaim, and this was nothing compared to the popular
adulation reserved for the Christopher Robin Books.
Dorothy Milne was more commonly known as Daphne. Also, Daphne is often considered to be
the one who originally provided "voices" and personalities for many of the
characters. Daphne also submitted A.A. Milne's first (published) Christopher Robin work,
the poem "Vespers," to a magazine for publication without A.A.'s knowledge or
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What are they called? Winnie-the-Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
When We Were Very Young
Now We Are Six
[The first two are sometimes referred to as The World of Pooh , since they were
published under that name in the late 1950's, along with the last two as The World of
Christopher Robin . They were all published together in 1961 as Pooh's Library .]
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Who illustrated them? Ernest H. Shepard (1879-1976) did pen-and-ink drawings
for Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner for their first editions
(14 Oct 1926 and 11 Oct 1928, respectively). He also did some watercolors for The World
of Pooh and The World of Christopher Robin in 1957, and colored his own pen and
ink drawings for editions in 1974. He was also the illustrator for Pooh's Birthday Book
(1963), The Pooh Song Book (1961), & The Pooh Story Book (1965),
among other Pooh-related material.
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Pooh's Names Pooh is known under the following names:
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Where do they take place? "The Forest" is loosely based on the geography of the countryside surrounding Cotchford Farm, the Milne's country home.
This forest is also known as the 100
Acre Wood.
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What happens in these books? Well, in order to keep this page from getting any too huge and to get you to read them yourself, we won't say. But here's a list of the chapter titles with dedications: Winnie the Pooh , The House at Pooh Corner , Now We Are Six , When We Were Very Young
WINNIE-THE-POOH TO HER
Hand in had we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours-
Because we love you.
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THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER DEDICATION:
You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see-
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
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NOW WE ARE SIX from Caroline Christian {[email protected]}
DEDICATION:
To
Christopher Robin Milne
or
as he prefers to call himself
Billy Moon
this book
which owes so much to him
is now
humbly offered
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WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG from Caroline Christian {[email protected]}
DEDICATION:
To
Anne Darlington
now she is seven
and
because she is
so
speshal.
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Was Christopher Robin real? Was Christopher Robin real? Well, yes. What makes it a bit confusing is that there are two Christopher Robins. Let's adopt a who's who style and see if that helps.
A special request: Please do not mix them up.
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