Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear /

Mattick, Lindsay,

Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall. - First edition. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

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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Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 --Juvenile fiction.
Winnipeg (Bear), 1914-1934 --Juvenile fiction.
Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 --Fiction.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 --Fiction.


Bears--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Caldecott Medal
Winnipeg (Bear)--Fiction.

JUV PZ 7.1 .M38 / Fin 2015