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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!

Finding Winnie The True Story of the Worlds Most

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    A Hardback by Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall

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      Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/10/2015
      ISBN13: 9780316324908, 978-0316324908
      ISBN10: 0316324906

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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!

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