How E.H. Shepard Brought Winnie-The-Pooh to Life
"It may interest you to know something of the history of Pooh."
It started in the nursery with a real teddy bear named Winnie-the-Pooh,1 owned by a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. Famously, his father, A.A. Milne (1882-1956), wove a series of stories around this bear.
But Christopher’s actual Pooh bear turned out to be a bad model for the illustrations. Made by the company Alpha Farnell, little Christopher’s teddy…
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