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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Age 4-8
Grade PK-3

Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Hardcover (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Oct. 20, 2015) , Illustrated Edition
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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!
ISBN
0316324906 / 9780316324908
Pages
56
Weight
18.4 oz.
Dimensions
10.3 x 0.65 in.