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Released in 1966, Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree was the first of the Disney featurettes that revolved around the antics of Pooh and his friends from the A.A. Milne classic stories. The other Pooh featurettes are Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968), Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too (1974), and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (1983).

Wolfgang (Woolie) Reitherman, who directed Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, went on to direct The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone and The Aristocats.

The voice of Winnie the Pooh belonged to the well-known Hollywood character actor, Sterling Holloway, who also provided the voice for several other Disney characters. The director's ten year old son, Bruce Reitherman, provided the voice of Christopher Robin.

The Academy Award winning composers, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, wrote five songs for Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, including "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers." The brothers won three Oscars for the music of Mary Poppins.

Both Sterling Holloway, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, and Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger, have provided many voices for Disney characters. Sterling Holloway was the voice of Flower (Bambi), the Cheshire Cat (Alice in Wonderland), and Kaa (The Jungle Book), while Paul Winchell provided the voice for the Chinese Cat (The Aristocats) and Boomer (The Fox and The Hound).

Wolfgang Reitherman began his career at Disney as an apprentice animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and went on to contribute to every animated feature produced by Disney as an apprentice, animator, assistant supervisor, animation director, or as a producer/director, as he was for Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day.

A.A. Milne, creator of the original Winnie the Pooh books, first began writing children's literature in 1924 when he wrote several poems about his four-year old son, Christopher Robin. In the books, Christopher Robin was joined by his fanciful animal friends, who were patterned from Christopher Robin's real stuffed animals. The personalities of each animal is said to be the individual personalities that make up a young boy such as Christopher Robin; Pooh's simple philosophy, Tigger's zest, and Piglet's fear.