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- Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Mattick, Lindsay.; Blackall, Sophie,illustrator.;
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.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.--Publisher.Accelerated ReaderCaldecott Medal, 2016.- Subjects: Randolph Caldecott Medal: Winner; Caldecott Medal winners, 2016. .; Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947; Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947; Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character); Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956; Winnipeg (Bear); Winnipeg (Bear); Bears; Soldiers;
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