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Title:
Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
Author:
Mattick, Lindsay, author.

Blackall, Sophie, illustrator.
Publication Information:
New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [2015]
Call Number:
PIC MATTICK FIND 2015
Abstract:
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader 3.4.
ISBN:
9780316324908
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Subject Term:
Winnipeg (Bear) -- Juvenile fiction.

Winnipeg (Bear) -- Fiction.

Bears -- Fiction.

Soldiers -- Fiction.
Added Author:
Blackall, Sophie,
Personal Subject:
Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947-Juvenile fiction.

Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947-Fiction.

Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956-Fiction.
Personal Author:
Mattick, Lindsay, author.
Subject:
Winnipeg (Bear) -- Juvenile fiction.

Winnipeg (Bear) -- Fiction.

Bears -- Fiction.

Soldiers -- Fiction.

Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 -- Juvenile fiction.

Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 -- Fiction.

Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Fiction.

Juvenile.

Children's literature.
Award Note:
Caldecott Medal Winner, 2016
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