Fans Celebrate National Winnie The Pooh Day

Day Honors A. A. Milne and His Beloved Character's Impact on Pop Culture and Children's Literature

January 18 is celebrated as National Winnie The Pooh Day, in honor of the birthday of English author A. A. Milne, who created the character.
Fans celebrate the day by reading books and poems written by Milne, watching films and shows about the characters, and playing video games based on the characters.
Disney licensed the rights to Winnie the Pooh stories in 1961, leading to the character’s adaptation in films and animated shows.
In England, fans can visit Pooh Corner, a gift shop/tearoom based on the characters created by Milne, and play Pooh Sticks, a game where players drop their wooden sticks from the upstream side of a river and run to the other side of the bridge to see whose stick came first.
Milne's stories about Winnie the Pooh and his friends have been translated to over 50 languages and have been part of children’s literature, teaching kids about kindness, friendship and courage.