Disney History | Jan 18th |  Alan Alexander Milne Born | This Day in Disney

#DisneyHistory #AAMilne #WinniethePooh Years of Ears continues it's 'This Day in Disney' Feature, Sharing Historic Disney Events which occurred on January 18th . 1882: Alan Alexander Milne, author, and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh is born in London, England. Credited as A. A. Milne, he was also known for his various children's poems and his adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall. Milne always acknowledged that it was his wife, Daphne, and his young son, Christopher Robin, who inspired him to write. Although a noted writer (primarily as a playwright) Pooh overshadowed all of Milne's work. He is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin (after his son, Christopher Robin Milne), and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named Edward, was renamed Winnie after a real Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Not yet known as Pooh, the character made his first appearance in the poem "Teddy Bear," published in Punch magazine in February 1924. Pooh first officially appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called "The Wrong Sort of Bees." The book Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by a second book titled The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. Surprisingly, the success of his children's books became a source of considerable annoyance to Milne for the remainder of his life.