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.
