Finding Winnie
About this book
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.
Subjects
- animal stories
- authors, fiction
- award:caldecott_award
- bears
- bears, fiction
- black bear
- children's fiction
- collectionid:caldecott10
- fiction
- historical fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- juvenile literature
- juvenile non-fiction
- juvenile works
- literatura juvenil
- materiales en español
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:picture-books=2016-01-31
- osos
- picture book
- soldados
- soldiers
- soldiers, fiction
- spanish language materials
- true stories
- veterinarians
- veterinarios
- winnie-the-pooh
- winnie-the-pooh (fictitious character), fiction
- winnipeg (bear)