# The House at Pooh Corner — Character guide

> Key figures in The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne.

- [Winnie-the-Pooh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/pooh.md): Pooh anchors the Forest's social world: he is the one everyone else visits, the bear whose front door is never quite wide enough for him. His appetite and his muddled arithmetic keep landing him in trouble, yet his slow,
- [Piglet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/piglet.md): Piglet lives halfway between Pooh's house and his own, at a Thoughtful Spot where the two of them sit and wonder what to do now that they have seen each other. He wants Reasons for things — Looking for Small, Organizing 
- [Rabbit](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/rabbit.md): Rabbit is the Forest's organizer, the one who wants plans and reasons and who suspects that Pooh and Piglet have come about something when they have only come to wish him a Very Happy Thursday. He is clever, and he has B
- [Tigger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/tigger.md): Tigger arrives in the Forest in the middle of the night, introduces himself to Pooh, and mistakes his own reflection for another Tigger. He is cheerfully certain about his own tastes and cheerfully wrong about them, and 
- [Eeyore](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/eeyore.md): Eeyore stands at the edge of the Forest, in his thistly field, announcing that it is snowing and freezing and that no one has seen his house. He protests that he does not complain, then complains at length, and brightens
- [Christopher Robin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/christopher_robin.md): Christopher Robin is the one the animals hurry to find, the boy who leads Expotitions and whose absence makes the Forest feel wrong. He is at home in the afternoon, glad to see Pooh and Piglet, and he drops everything to
- [Owl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/owl.md): Owl presides over his tree with the gravity of a scholar, dispensing pronouncements on wind, blame, and the Problem of Escape while quietly admiring his own letterbox. His authority is entirely unearned yet oddly comfort
- [Roo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/roo.md): Roo moves through the Hundred Acre Wood as its youngest resident, tagging along on expeditions and adding his high, eager voice to Pooh's tiddely-poms. Sheltered by Kanga and endlessly fascinated by the bigger animals, h
- [Kanga](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/kanga.md): Kanga occupies a gentle authority in the Hundred Acre Wood, the one figure whose care for Roo never wavers amid everyone else's muddles. Where the other animals scheme and misremember, she simply tends, and her steadines
- [Heffalump](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/heffalump.md): A mythical elephant-like creature that the animals fear and imagine.
- [Small](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_house_at_pooh_corner_se/characters/small.md): A beetle who is a friend of Rabbit and helps with messages.

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