Finding Winnie
the story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
by Lindsay Mattick
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Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
When soldier Harry Colebourn sees a bear cub on a station platform, he knows he can't leave her behind. But little does Harry expect that Winnie will go on to win not just his heart, but hearts all over the world, including those of a little boy named Christopher Robin Milne and his father.
This is the award-winning story of two very special friendships, and of how the world came to know and love Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Winnie-the-Pooh, picture book, juvenile non-fiction, historical fiction, Bears, Winnipeg (Bear), Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Soldiers, History, Juvenile literature, Black bear, Children's fiction, Bears, fiction, Soldiers, fiction, Winnie-the-pooh (fictitious character), fiction, Authors, fiction, nyt:picture-books=2016-01-31, New York Times bestseller, Spanish language materials, Veterinarios, Materiales en español, Osos, Veterinarians, Soldados, Literatura juvenil, collectionID:caldecott10, true stories, animal stories, Juvenile works, award:Caldecott_awardPeople
Harry Colebourn (1887-1947), Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character), A. A. Milne (1882-1956), Winnipeg (bear), Christopher Robin MilnePlaces
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Xun zhao Weini: Finding winnie
2016, Chang Jiang shao nian er tong chu ban she
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7556045544 9787556045549
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Finding Winnie: the story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
2016, Orchard Books
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in English
1408340240 9781408340240
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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
2015, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown and Company
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031639470X 9780316394703
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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.
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