Finding Winnie
The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
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Author
Contributions
- Sophie Blackall - Illustrator
Publication
2015 - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Word Count
14,000 words, Guess
Page Count
56 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefindingwinnietru0000matt
- ISBN-100316324906
- ISBN-139780316394703
- ISBN-10031639470X
- ISBN-139780316324908
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014041122
- OCLC Control Number894149533
- Better World Books9780316324908
- Open LibraryOL25912477M
Classifications
- LCCPZ7.1.M38 Fin 2015
- LCCPZ7.1.M38Fin 2015
Description
Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl! 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. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
Description
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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