Immortalized And Traumatized By Winne The Pooh – Christopher Robin Milne born August 21, 1920

Christopher Robin Milne, bookseller and writer: born London 21 August 1920, immortalized as the young friend of Winnie-the-Pooh in the children’s stories of his father, A. A. Milne. He was a re- markable man who trium-phantly survived a remarkable childhood, though not without considerable pain on the way.

Christopher Robin Milne, 75, who has been immortalized as the young friend of Winnie the Pooh in the children’s stories by his father, A.A. Milne, died April 20. The Times of London, which reported his death, did not report where he died nor the cause of his death.

His son’s affection for a bear named Winnie at the London zoo became the model of hugely successful children’s books — “Winnie the Pooh” (1926), “Now We Are Six” (1927) and “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928). The stories were later brought to film by Walt Disney Co.

Although A.A. Milne devoted a career to making up stories for and about his young son, in real life, he was cold and distant, the Times said. It described how the young Christopher Robin was taken to formal visits with his parents at mealtimes, spending the rest of his time with a nurse.

House At Pooh Corner – Opening

Small and shy as a child, he loved to sew and knit and gloried in taking clocks apart. Sent to boarding school, he learned to box to defend himself against the inevitable teasing from his schoolmates. He eventually won a scholarship to Trinity College at Cambridge University but dropped out after a year to join the British Army. He was wounded in Italy during World War II and returned to the university to earn a degree in English.

He described his father as a man who used his small son’s youth to stave off his own middle age. “When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six. . . . He needed me to escape from being 50,” Mr. Milne wrote.

House At Pooh Corner – Closing

He sold his share in the future royalties he inherited from the Pooh books to the Royal Literary Fund (which already had a share) and, with the capital, set up a trust fund for her. Money never interested him and he gave much away, but he prided himself that he and his wife were self- supporting for over 20 years at the Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth.

The shy schoolboy who stammered, and who had been so unworldly that he thought you could send a telegram from a bank, became a successful bookseller and in the Sixties a passionate speaker on children and reading at meetings of PTAs and the School Library Association. Loving Dartmouth, he was for years Chairman of the Dartmouth and Kingswear Association.

SOURCE: The Independent, The NY Times, The Washington Post

~~Wit And Wisdom~~

” A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.”
Eeyore

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin

“Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“If the string breaks, then we try another piece of string.”
Owl

“It isn’t much good having anything exciting, if you can’t share it with somebody.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
Winnie-the-Pooh

~~Pooh “Friends” Music Mix–

Cheers, We’re Going To Be Friends, You’ve Got A Friend, You’ve Got A Friend In Me, He Was A Friend Of Mine, Old Friends, Old Age And Treachery, All My Rowdy Friends,You’re My Beat Friend, My BeT Friends Girl, Waiting On A Friend, In My Life, Lean On Me, I’ll Be There For Yo