Character guide

Winnie-the-Pooh

major

Also known as Pooh, Winnie, Pooh Bear, Silly old Bear, Bear of Very Little Brain, Edward Bear

A honey-obsessed bear of Very Little Brain who turns every simple errand into a hum, a muddle, and an accidental act of heroism.

Piglet

major

Also known as Henry Pootel, Little Piglet, Pootel

A very small pig with very large fears, whose quiet courage keeps proving larger than anyone—including Piglet—expects.

Christopher Robin

major

Also known as Robin

The boy at the green door who owns the forest's animals, its parties, and its rescues, and who is slowly learning he will have to leave it.

Eeyore

supporting

Also known as Poor old Eeyore

A grey donkey who has lost his tail, expects the worst, and somehow still shows up for every party with a gloomy word of thanks.

Rabbit

supporting

Also known as old Rabbit

A bossy, well-organized rabbit with a hole, a plan, and a firm opinion about who has been eating too much.

Owl

supporting

A self-appointed sage of the Hundred Acre Wood who spells his own name Wol and dispenses wisdom with great confidence and doubtful accuracy.

Kanga

supporting

Kanga presides over the Forest's one domestic hearth, raising Baby Roo with brisk cheerfulness and an unshakeable belief that Christopher Robin will let no real harm come to anyone. When Rabbit tries to steal Roo and leave Piglet in his place, she spots the swap at once — yet rather than scold, she decides that if they are having a joke with her, she will have a joke with them, and calmly proposes a cold bath. Her composure turns a prank into a lesson about how the Forest's rough games look from a mother's side, quietly widening the book's sense of who belongs to whom.

Baby Roo

supporting

Also known as Roo, little Roo, Funny little Roo

Roo is the Forest's youngest resident, carried in Kanga's pocket and passed from paw to paw when Rabbit decides the newcomer must be made to feel like an outsider. He is too little to know he is the object of a plot, which is exactly what makes the scheme so tender and so funny: Rabbit grows fonder of him by the minute even while using him as a pawn. His easy trust in whoever holds him tests the others' assumptions about family, and his return to Kanga's pocket restores the household the Forest didn't know it needed.

Heffalump

minor

Also known as a Heffalump, the Heffalump, Heffalumps

A mythical elephant-like creature that the animals fear and imagine.

Bees

minor

Also known as Some Bees, the Bees

Bees whose honey Pooh tries to steal at the start of the book.