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Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall
For National Curriculum Key Stage 1, Interest age: from c 5 years, Fiction, Picture storybooks, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage)
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The moving true story of the real bear named Winnie
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in World War 1, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, and he took her 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 an army base in England. . .
And finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend - a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. . .
Finding Winnie was the winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal!
More books by Lindsay Mattick
Lindsay Mattick
Lindsay Mattick, the great-granddaughter of Captain Harry Colebourn, grew up thinking of Winnie-the-Pooh as her own great-grandbear. She has shared Winnie's story as a radio documentary, spearheaded an original exhibition, and traveled to the UK to commemorate Harry and Winnie's experience in World War I. She works at Narrative Public Relations, and lives with her family in Toronto, Canada.
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