Now we are 80! – Disney celebrates Pooh’s big year
There's little doubt that Winnie the Pooh is the world's most famous 'tubby little cubby.' Since A.A. Milne's short story Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve 1925, Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood's cast of characters have been a hit with British children and adults alike. And while a dedicated following championed Milne's subsequent Pooh books in the U.S., it was Walt Disney's 1966 animated featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree that sealed the hungry little bear's fate with American kids, setting him on the path to the iconic status he enjoys today.
November 1, 2005
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