An edition of Finding Winnie (2015)

Finding Winnie

the story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

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An edition of Finding Winnie (2015)

Finding Winnie

the story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh

by

  • ★★★★ ★ 4.7 (3 ratings) ·
  • 26 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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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Orchard Books
Language
English

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Subjects

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_award

People

Harry Colebourn (1887-1947), Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character), A. A. Milne (1882-1956), Winnipeg (bear), Christopher Robin Milne

Places

Winnipeg, London, London Zoo, France

Times

1914
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Winnie: La Verdadera Historia Del Oso Mas Querido Del Mundo
Sep 22, 2017, Turtleback Books
library binding
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Winnie: la verdadera historia del oso más querido del mundo
2016
in Spanish - Primera edición.
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Xun zhao Weini: Finding winnie
2016, Chang Jiang shao nian er tong chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
Apr 08, 2016, Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing
audio cd
Cover of: Yu jian Weini
Yu jian Weini: quan shi jie zui you ming xiao xiong de zhen shi gu shi
2016, Wei jing guo ji gu fen you xian gong si
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Finding Winnie
Finding Winnie: the story of the real bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
2016, Orchard Books
paperback in English
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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
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Finding Winnie
Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
2015, Hachette Children's Group
in English
Cover of: Finding Winnie
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
2015, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
in English
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Finding Winnie
2015, Bound to Stay Bound Books
in English
Cover of: Finding Winnie
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
2015, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
in English

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Edition Notes

Caldecott Medal, 2016

Published in
London
Copyright Date
2016

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PZ7.1.M38 Fin 2015

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
1 volume (unpaged)

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28284836M
Internet Archive
findingwinnietru0000matt_2015
ISBN 10
1408340240
ISBN 13
9781408340240
OCLC/WorldCat
960846046
Goodreads
144692360

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Work 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.

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