The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh derived from three previously released animated featurettes Disney produced based upon the Winnie-the-Pooh books by A. A. Milne: "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree" (1966), "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" (1968), and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too" (1974). Extra material was used to link the three featurettes together to allow the stories to merge into each other. A fourth, shorter featurette was added to bring the film to a close, originally made during production of "Blustery Day" (based on the presence of Jon Walmsley as Christopher Robin). The sequence was based on the final chapter of
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree the wisdom to dip right into the Milne pages, just the way Pooh paws after honey...The flavoring, with some nice tunes stirred in, is exactly right—wistful, sprightly and often hilarious. English critic Felix Barker strongly disliked it. E.H. Shepard called the short a travesty. A.A. Milne's widow, Daphne, is said to have liked it. Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 animated featurette based on the first two chapters of the book "Winnie-the-Pooh" by A. A. Milne. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions. Its songs were written by