A. A. Milne Mystery" (although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot). But once Milne had, in his own words, "said goodbye to all that in 70,000 words" (the approximate length of his four principal children's books), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older. Another reason Milne stopped writing children's books, and especially about Winnie-the-Pooh, was that he felt "amazement and disgust" over the fame his son was exposed to, and said that "I feel that the legal Christopher Robin
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree autobiography, "Walt's Time": The film's plot is based primarily on two A. A. Milne stories: "In which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some bees, and the stories begin" (Chapter I of Winnie-the-Pooh), and "In which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place" (Chapter II of Winnie-the-Pooh). Walt Disney first learned of the Winnie the Pooh books from his daughter, Diane. "Dad would hear me laughing alone in my room and come in to see what I was laughing at," Diane later recalled. "It was usually the gentle, whimsical humor of A. A. Milne's Pooh stories. I read