Finding Winnie
The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
by Lindsay Mattick
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A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
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Xun zhao Weini: Finding winnie
2016, Chang Jiang shao nian er tong chu ban she
in Chinese
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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
paperback
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
Hardcover
in English
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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