Christopher Robin Milne

CHRISTOPHER ROBIN MILNE d1996. English author and bookseller and the only child of author A A Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems. On his first birthday on 21st August 1921, he received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear which he later named Edward. Eeyore was a Christmas present in 1921 and Piglet arrived undated. Edward, along with a real Canadian black bear (named Winnipeg) that A A Milne saw at London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character