Lindsay mattick books5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Milne, of course-takes the name and runs with it. Christopher Robin names his stuffed bear Winnie-the-Pooh after her, and his father-A.A. ![]() “That’s the end of Harry and Winnie’s story,” but another section begins, about a boy named Christopher Robin Milne who plays with Winnie at the London Zoo. Mom tells little Cole about Harry, a veterinarian in Winnipeg “about a hundred years before you were born.” En route to his World War I muster, Harry buys a bear cub from a trapper and names her Winnipeg “so we’ll never be far from home.” Winnie travels overseas with the Canadian soldiers to training in England, but when they ship out to France for actual combat, Harry leaves her at the London Zoo. A mother tells a true bedtime story about the bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh’s name. ![]()
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