Eeyore Eeyore Eeyore ( ) is a character in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books by A. A. Milne. He is generally characterized as a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, anhedonic, old grey stuffed donkey who is a friend of the title character, Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore appears in chapters IV, VI, VII, and X of "Winnie-the-Pooh", and is mentioned in a few others. He also appears in all the chapters of "The House at Pooh Corner" except chapter VII. His name is an onomatopoeic representation of the braying sound made by a normal donkey, usually represented as "hee haw" in American English: the spelling with an "r"
A. A. Milne I had to say? I said "Bless Daddy," so what can it be? Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me." </poem> A. A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne (; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was a British author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War