Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)

by Lindsay Mattick

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316324906
• ISBN13: 9780316324908
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.2" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3