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Christopher Robin Milne 21 August — 20 April was an English author and bookseller and the only child of author A. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two books of poems. Milne speculated that he was an only child because "he had been a long time coming. Milne called her Nou , and stated "Apart from her fortnight's holiday every September, we had not been out of each other's sight for more than a few hours at a time", and "we lived together in a large nursery on the top floor.

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Milne's father explained that "Rosemary" was the intended name of their firstborn child, if it was a girl. Realizing that it was going to be a boy, he decided on "Billy", but without the intention of actually christening him William. Instead, each parent chose a name; hence his legal name was Christopher Robin. Within the family, he was referred to as "Billy Moon", a combination of his nickname and his childhood mispronunciation of Milne.

On his first birthday on 21 August , Milne received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear , which he later named Edward. Eeyore was a Christmas present in and Piglet arrived undated. Edward, along with a real Canadian black bear named Winnipeg that Milne saw at London Zoo , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character.

Milne spoke self-deprecatingly of his own intellect, "I may have been on the dim side", or "not very bright". He also described himself as being "good with his hands" and possessing a Meccano set. His self-descriptions included "girlish", since he had long hair and wore "girlish clothes", and being "very shy and 'un-self-possessed'".

An early childhood friend was Anne Darlington, also an only child, who, as Milne described it, was for his parents "the Rosemary that I wasn't. Several poems by Milne's father, and several illustrations by E.