Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear

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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear
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Series: Animal Stories
Genres: Juvenile Nonfiction, Picture Books
Tags: Ages 3-5, Ages 5-8, Award Winners
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Year: 2015

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.

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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!
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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.
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