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Most fans of the Winnie the Pooh books, movies, or television series are likely aware that the titular character is often referred to as he or a him. But in June 2018, many readers were shocked to come across a childhood-shattering rumor that Winnie the Pooh had actually been a girl bear all along: This rumor largely came from a 2015 book called Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear about the real-life inspiration for the character, a beloved (female) bear named Winnipeg who lived at the London Zoo. At the time, many outlets reported on the revelation made in this book with misleading titles such as New Children’s Book Reveals Winnie The Pooh Is A Girl. As the BBC explained: There's plenty of evidence that A.A. Milne wrote the Winnie the Pooh character as a boy bear. For one thing, the character is referred to as he throughout Milne's stories. Furthermore, the real stuffed animal with which the real Christopher Robin played (who was also A.A. Milne's son) was originally named Edward: A.A. Milne even introduced the character as Edward Bear in the book Winnie the Pooh before noting that he was known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh (or Pooh for short): Another passage explains how he received the name Winnie. When Christopher Robin is asked why he gave the bear the name Winnie if it was a boy, he retorts that that he named the bear Winnie-ther-Pooh, not Winnie (or even Winnie-the-Pooh):
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