Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall

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! * "Little ones who love Milne's classic stories will be enchanted by this heartening account of the bear's real-life origins."-- Booklist, starred review * "The sum total is as captivating as it is informative, transforming a personal family sto