Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear /
by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
- New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, (c)2015.
- 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Caldecott Medal, 2016.
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Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 --Juvenile fiction. Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) --Juvenile fiction. Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 --Juvenile fiction. Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 --Fiction. Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) --Fiction. Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 --Fiction.