de. Whenever A. A. went to visit his family he would go alone. (WWW) In the 1920s, Alan and Dorothy had a son. They named him Christopher Robin. (Christopher being his dads choice, Robin being his mothers.) Although his real name was Christopher Robin, his nickname was Billy Moon. This name Moon originated when Christopher was very young and tried to pronounce his last name. (WWW) On Christophers first birthday he received a teddy bear named Winnie the Pooh that was as big as he was. Over the years he got many other stuffed animals. Dorothy would sit with Christopher and give them all names and personalities. (Collier, Nakamura 1688) Some animals that Christopher had were Pooh, Piglet, Tiger, Eeyore, Kanga, and Roo. The settings of the stories that made up Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner is the Hundred Acre Wood. (Berger 665) By the time Christopher was three years old A. A. was writing books about his only child. (Collier, Nakamura 1688)During the war there was a very high demand for Milnes childrens books. There was so much trouble that there were problems getting enough paper to keep them in print. Even after the war sales kept increasing because he became so popular with children and adults. (WWW) By 1948, thirteen different plays by him had been produced. In the same year Christopher began to resent his father because of the famous books that gave fame to his name. This is also when Christopher met his cousin Lesley for the first time. They fell in love, married, and ran away together. (WWW) Dorothy Milne was very surprised and upset by this not only because Christophers new wife was also her niece but also because Dorothy hated her nieces father, her brother. Alan was very disappointed as well. Alans last book was published in 1952 and finally Christopher Robin began to get over his resentment towards his father and the Pooh books. He said, There was an intermediate period where any reference to Pooh was infuriating;...
