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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015-20-10

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)

Lindsay Mattick, Author

Sophie Blackall, Illustrator

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9780316324908

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A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Keywords and Themes: Animals • Bears • Books & Libraries • Historical • JUV002030 • JUV016080 • JUV047000 • Juvenile Fiction • Military & Wars

Age Range • 4-8

Pages • 56

Subjects • Colebourn • Harry • Winnipeg (Bear) • Bears • Soldiers • Winnie-the-Pooh • Milne • A. A

Categories • Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars • Juvenile Fiction | Books & Libraries • Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Bears

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.

In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war.

Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey--from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England...

And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.

Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl!

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