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Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Summary
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.
Subjects
- Winnipeg (Bear) > Juvenile literature.
- Black bear > Juvenile literature.
- Bears > Juvenile literature.
- Soldiers > Juvenile literature.
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces > Mascots > Juvenile literature.
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) > Juvenile literature.
- Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 > Juvenile literature.
- Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 > Juvenile literature.