<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (hardback & paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The House at Pooh Corner </Td> </Tr> <P> Winnie - the - Pooh (1926) is the first volume of stories about Winnie - the - Pooh, written by A.A. Milne and illustrated by E.H. Shepard . It is followed by The House at Pooh Corner . The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie - the - Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit . The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled "In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath". The bouncy toy - tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner . </P> <P> Portions of the book were adapted from previously published stories . The first chapter, for instance, was adapted from "The Wrong Sort of Bees", a story published in the London Evening News in its issue for Christmas Eve 1925 . The chapters in the book can be read independently of each other, as they are episodic in nature and plots do not carry over from one chapter to the next . In 2003, Winnie the Pooh was listed at number 7 on the BBC's survey The Big Read . </P>

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