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
Gopher (Winnie-the-Pooh) Gopher (Winnie-the-Pooh) Gopher is a fictional grey anthropomorphic gopher character who first appeared in the 1966 Disney animated film "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree", introducing himself as Samuel J. Gopher. He has a habit of whistling out his sibilant consonants, one of various traits he has in common with the beaver in "Lady and the Tramp", by whom he may have been inspired. While he never made appearances in any episodes of "Welcome to Pooh Corner", Gopher was fleshed out a bit further in the television series "The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh". He is portrayed as