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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
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780316324908
- ISBN-10: 0316324906
- Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Publish Date: October 2015
- Dimensions: 10 x 10.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 56
- Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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