Winnie-the-Pooh "When We Were Very Young" (6 November 1924). Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name on 24 December 1925, in a Christmas story commissioned and published by the London newspaper "The Evening News". It was illustrated by J. H. Dowd. The first collection of Pooh stories appeared in the book "Winnie-the-Pooh". The "Evening News" Christmas story reappeared as the first chapter of the book. At the beginning, it explained that Pooh was in fact Christopher Robin's Edward Bear, who had been renamed by the boy. He was renamed after a black bear at London Zoo called Winnie who got her name from
Winnie-the-Pooh now-familiar red shirt and featured on an RCA Victor picture record. Parker Brothers introduced "A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Game" in 1933, again with Pooh in his red shirt. In the 1940s, Agnes Brush created the first plush dolls with Pooh in his red shirt. Shepard had drawn Pooh with a shirt as early as the first Winnie-The-Pooh book, which was subsequently coloured red in later coloured editions. After Slesinger's death in 1953, his wife, Shirley Slesinger Lasswell, continued developing the character herself. In 1961, she licensed rights to Walt Disney Productions in exchange for royalties in the first of two