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
Winnie-the-Pooh Piglet" to explain Taoism. Similarly, Frederick Crews wrote essays about the Pooh books in abstruse academic jargon in "The Pooh Perplex" and "Postmodern Pooh" to satirise a range of philosophical approaches. "Pooh and the Philosophers" by John T. Williams uses Winnie the Pooh as a backdrop to illustrate the works of philosophers including Descartes, Kant, Plato, and Nietzsche. Epic Pooh is a 1978 essay by Michael Moorcock that compares much fantasy writing to AA Milne's as work intended to comfort, not challenge. One of the best known characters in British children's literature, a 2011 poll saw Winnie the Pooh voted