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
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh featurette based on the stories. "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore" premiered in theaters on March 11, 1983, but was never connected to the preceding films in any manner. "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" was the last film in the Disney canon in which Walt Disney had personal involvement, since one of the shorts ("Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree") was released during his lifetime, and he was involved in the production of "Blustery Day". It was always Walt Disney's intention to create a feature film, but he decided to make shorts instead — after