Winnie-the-Pooh (book)

1. In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie the Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin

   Winnie-the-Pooh is out of honey, so he and Christopher Robin attempt to trick some bees out of theirs, with disastrous results.

2. In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place

   Pooh visits Rabbit, but eats so much while in Rabbit's house that he gets stuck in Rabbit's door on the way out.

3. In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle

   Pooh and Piglet track increasing numbers of footsteps round and round a spinney of trees.

4. In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One

   Pooh sets out to find Eeyore's missing tail, and notices something interesting about Owl's bell-pull.

5. In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump

   Piglet and Pooh try to trap a Heffalump, but wind up trapping the wrong sort of creature.

6. In Which Eeyore has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents

   Pooh feels bad that no one has gotten Eeyore anything for his birthday, so he and Piglet try their best to get him presents.

7. In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath

   Rabbit convinces Pooh and Piglet to try to kidnap newcomer Baby Roo to convince newcomer Kanga to leave the forest.

8. In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole

   Christopher Robin and all of the animals in the forest go on a quest to find the North Pole in the Hundred Acre Wood.

9. In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water

   Piglet is trapped in his home by a flood, so he sends a message out in a bottle in hope of rescue.

10. In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party and We Say Goodbye

    Christopher Robin gives Pooh a party for helping to rescue Piglet during the flood.

The work has been translated into many languages, including Latin. The Latin translation by the Hungarian Lénárd Sándor (Alexander Lenard), Winnie ille Pu, was first published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the first foreign-language book to be featured on the New York Times Best Seller List, and the only book in Latin ever to have been featured therein.[2] It was also translated into Esperanto in 1972, by Ivy Kellerman Reed and Ralph A. Lewin, Winnie-La-Pu.[3] The work was featured in the iBooks app for Apple's iOS as the "starter" book for the app.

Following Disney's licensing of certain rights to Pooh from Stephen Slesinger and the A. A. Milne Estate in the 1960s, the Milne story lines were used by Disney in its cartoon featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree.[4] The "look" of Pooh was adapted by Disney from Stephen Slesinger's distinctive American Pooh with his famous red shirt that had been created and used in commerce by Slesinger since the 1930s.[5]

Parts of the book were adapted to three Russian-language short animated films directed by Fyodor Khitruk: Winnie-the-Pooh (based on chapter 1), Winnie-the-Pooh Pays a Visit (based on chapter 2), and Winnie-the-Pooh and a Busy Day (based on chapters 4 and 6).

Winnie-the-Pooh was shortly followed by The House at Pooh Corner, also by Milne.

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, by David Benedictus was the first official post-Milne Pooh book written with the full backing of A. A. Milne's estate, which took the trustees ten years to agree to.[6] Pooh returned with his friends Tigger, Piglet and Eeyore as well as a new companion Lottie the Otter. The illustrations are by Mark Burgess, who had also worked on reviving the Paddington Bear stories.

The Best Bear in All The World, by Paul Bright, Jeanne Willis, Kate Saunders and Brian Sibley is the second official post-Milne Pooh book, published by Egmont on 6 October 2016.[7] The four different authors have written four short stories around the four seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall, and the book is again illustrated by Mark Burgess.

In 2001, Disney bought all rights to the character from The Royal Literary Fund, whom the estate of Milne had sold the rights to. The $350M purchase gave Disney full rights to the franchise until the British copyright expires on 1 Jan 2027 (70 calendar years after Milne's death).[8] As a work first published in 1926, the book will enter the public domain in the United States on 1 Jan 2022.

• Woozle effect

• Winnie-the-Pooh at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Winnie-the-Pooh at Internet Archive