Finding Winnie The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
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<b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. </b><br>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.<br><br>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...<br><br>And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.<br> <br><i>Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.</i><i> And she was a girl!</i>
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