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"Oh, bother, Winnie-the-Pooh looks like a normal toy bear," Pooh Bear remarks. "That is true. He is a teddy bear that Christopher Robin’s mother bought at Harrods in London as a present for son’s first birthday in 1921. When Christopher Robin’s father. A.A. Milne, started writing poems and stories about his son and his animals, E.H. Shepard drew their pictures. Shepard changed Pooh’s looks a bit by copying some characteristics of his own son’s teddy bear, Growler." "Oh, I see. I guess he had a round stomach from eating honey like me", Pooh Bear laughs. "Well, Tigger and Eeyore look much the same as in the books. But that is not true with Piglet." Pooh Bear is right. Piglet really is a very small animal and does not look quite as cute as in the stories. All five look pretty worn. Especially Kanga and Eeyore seem to have been mended several times.

"And where is Baby Roo?" Pooh Bear suddenly asks. Looking into Kanga's empty pouch he remembers Baby Roo and Tigger climbing a tree and rescuing Roo out of the river one day. "Unfortunately, Roo got lost in the Hundred-Acre-Wood, it was probably eaten by a dog. By the way, the same accident happened to Growler after he had come to Canada with Shepard's granddaughter." Owl and Rabbit are not here because they exist as drawings only.
Pooh Bear has a closer look at Winnie-the-Pooh who seems to be quite relaxed and thoughtful. Does he think of their many adventures in the Hundred-Acre-Wood?
Opposite of the glass case there is a guest-book. "Come home, Pooh!" A little girl from England wrote into it. Well, that won't happen. By now the animals are too old to travel. Until 1969 they did a lot of travelling, they were VIPs on board a Concorde. In 1987 they became permanent New Yorkers and occupy their climate controlled case in the Childrens' Room of Donnell Library.
Pooh Bear also signs the guest-book. He finds another signature of a Danish friend of Pooh's.