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Oct 20, 2015 · Colebourn named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, a gentle reminder of his hometown, and took the bear with him to England. Winnie quickly became the mascot of his unit. But when the time came to ship out to France for combat, Colebourn left his beloved pet in the capable hands of the London Zoo.
Oct 20, 2015 · 4.51. 9,805 ratings2,416 reviews. Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario.
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978-0316324908. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear is a 2015 children's book written by Canadian author Lindsay Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall. The non-fiction book is framed as a story Mattick is telling to her son.
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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner) - Ebook written by Lindsay Mattick. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android,...
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Oct 20, 2015 · Hardcover $19.99. ebook (Digital original) $7.99. Also available from: Amazon. Barnes & Noble. Books-A-Million. Bookshop. Target. Walmart. Description. 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.
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 an army base in England. . . And finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend - a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. . .
- Lindsay Mattick
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