Winnie the Pooh is actually a girl
According to a new book, that is.
According to a new book, that is.
According to a new book, that is.
Winnie the Pooh is not a boy. She is a girl and she's from Canada, not England.
In a new picture book called "," we learn that Winnie is actually named after a black bear from London Zoo called Winnie, real name Winnipeg, reports . Winnipeg is Canadian!
The new book was written by Lindsay Mattick, who is the granddaughter of the soldier who was responsible for bringing Winnie to England. His name was Lieutenant Harry Colebourn and he bought the bear for just $20 during the First World War. They became inseparable, until he had to leave Winnie at the London Zoo so he could go off with his unit to France.
The author, along with illustrator Sophie Blackall, wanted to release the book to show the world how loved the bear was.
There's a happy ending though: Winnie got a new best friend, a little boy who always visited her at the zoo. That boy's name was Christopher Robin. Making sense now? Little Christopher even named his own toy bear after Winnie. And who was Christopher's dad? Author A. A. Milne, who went on to write the classic Winnie books.
Mystery, solved!