Gopher (Winnie-the-Pooh) were in "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" and "Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You". He also made minor appearances in "A Very Merry Pooh Year", "House of Mouse" and appeared in "Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh", which was included as part of "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie". To date, this is Gopher's last appearance in any form of "Winnie the Pooh" media. Gopher was notably absent for the 2011 film, "Winnie the Pooh". Gopher did not appear in the 2018 live action film "Christopher Robin", either. Gopher was the only character in the original shorts that was an
A. A. Milne a poem, "Teddy Bear," published in "Punch" magazine in February 1924 and republished in "When We Were Very Young". Pooh first appeared in the "London Evening News" on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called "The Wrong Sort Of Bees." "Winnie-the-Pooh" was published in 1926, followed by "The House at Pooh Corner" in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, "Now We Are Six", was published in 1927. All four books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also "gallantly stepped forward" to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P.