Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)

ISBN-13:	9780316324908
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	10/20/2015
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	13,061
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	AD590L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

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. 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!