# Winnie-the-Pooh — Character guide

> Key figures in Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne.

- [Winnie-the-Pooh](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/winnie_the_pooh.md): 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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/piglet.md): A very small pig with very large fears, whose quiet courage keeps proving larger than anyone—including Piglet—expects.
- [Christopher Robin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/christopher_robin.md): 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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/eeyore.md): 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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/rabbit.md): A bossy, well-organized rabbit with a hole, a plan, and a firm opinion about who has been eating too much.
- [Owl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/owl.md): 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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/kanga.md): 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 lea
- [Baby Roo](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/baby_roo.md): 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, whi
- [Heffalump](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/heffalump.md): A mythical elephant-like creature that the animals fear and imagine.
- [Bees](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/winnie_the_pooh_se/characters/bees.md): Bees whose honey Pooh tries to steal at the start of the book.

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