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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!
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner): The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)
$19.99
Book details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Publication date
- October 20, 2015
- ISBN
- 9780316324908
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Age range
- 04–08
- Grade range
- P–3
- BISAC
- Juvenile Fiction, Historical, Military & Wars, Books & Libraries, Animals, Bears
- Themes
- 1900-1919, Canadian, British
- Related subjects
- Colebourn, Harry, Winnipeg (Bear), Bears, Soldiers, Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne, A. A