Summary

A canadian soldier, Cpt Harry Colebourn brought the bear across the Atlantic in 1914. When he went to war in France, however, he donated his bear named Winnie to London Zoo.  By the way, The story of  ‘Winnie the Pooh’ was made by Alan Alexander(AA), first appeared in the London. Winnie the Pooh is a character come from the real, Canadian bear  which AA’s son had seen in London Zoo. Christopher Robin was also modeled on AA’s son. Recently, the great-grand daughter of Cot Harry Colebourn, Lindsay  Mattick visited to the UK and she was introduced to Derek de Selincourt, the cousin of the late Christopher Robin Milne. Lindsay showed him extracts from Mr Coleborn’s diary including one  that showed when he bought Winnie.

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I had been thought that the stories of ‘Winnie the Pooh ‘was the original story of Disney because I had seldom seen the Pooh except as a character of Disney . The fact that Winnie the pooh was a real bear and other characters had their own models surprised me a lot. And I was also surprised at the miracle that two persons who are closely related to Pooh met and had a conversation. It means that two persons were brought together by one story. I think that is more dramatic than fiction story.  After reading this article, I became to want to read the original stories of ‘Winnie the Pooh’ written by Alan Alexander.