Wikipedia WWW site, viewed December 17, 2014 (Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by A. A. Milne ; the first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) ; Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) ; gender: male)