Finding Winnie

By: Mattick, Lindsay [VerfasserIn]Contributor(s): Blackall, Sophie, 1970- [K�unstlerIn]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London Orchard Books 2016Description: 55 ungezählte SeitenContent type: Text | unbewegtes Bild Media type: ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen Carrier type: BandAudience: Kind | JugendISBN: 9781408340240; 1408340240Subject(s): Soldiers | Winnipeg (Bear) | Bears | Winnipeg (Bear) -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Bilderbuch | Kinderbuch | Jugendbuch | Children's storiesDDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. Finding Winnie was the winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal! Here begins the moving true story of the real bear named Winnie adopted by soldiers during World War 1, and the inspiration behind the nation's best-loved bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in World War 1, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, and he took her 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 an army base in England . . . and finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend - a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. . .
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Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. Finding Winnie was the winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal! Here begins the moving true story of the real bear named Winnie adopted by soldiers during World War 1, and the inspiration behind the nation's best-loved bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in World War 1, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, and he took her 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 an army base in England . . . and finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend - a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. . .