Finding Winnie

Description:

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.

subjects: Winnie-the-Pooh,  picture book,  juvenile non-fiction,  historical fiction,  Bears,  Winnipeg (Bear),  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  Soldiers,  History,  Juvenile literature,  Black bear,  Children's fiction,  Bears, fiction,  Soldiers, fiction,  Winnie-the-pooh (fictitious character), fiction,  Authors, fiction,  nyt:picture-books=2016-01-31,  New York Times bestseller,  Spanish language materials,  Veterinarios,  Materiales en español,  Osos,  Veterinarians,  Soldados,  Literatura juvenil,  collectionID:caldecott10,  true stories,  animal stories,  Juvenile works,  award:Caldecott_award

People: Harry Colebourn (1887-1947),  Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character),  A. A. Milne (1882-1956),  Winnipeg (bear),  Christopher Robin Milne

Places: Winnipeg,  London,  London Zoo,  France

Times: 1914