Christopher Robin Milne Christopher Robin Milne Christopher Robin Milne (21 August 1920 – 20 April 1996) was an English bookseller and the only son of author A. A. Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems. Christopher Robin Milne was born at 11 Mallord Street, Chelsea, London, on 21 August 1920, to author Alan Alexander Milne and Daphne ("née" de Sélincourt) Milne. Milne speculates that he was an only child because "he had been a long time coming." From an early age Milne was cared for by
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is an American Saturday morning original animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television that ran from January 17, 1988 to October 26, 1991, inspired by A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories. It has been released on VHS and DVD. "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" first aired in January 1988 on The Disney Channel. The show moved to ABC in September of that same year. For the 1989-90 season, it was paired with "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" (which had moved from NBC) as