Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear

$15.19

Hardcover
Author: Lindsay Mattick
Illustrator: Sophie Blackall
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publish Date: October 2015
Language: English
Reading Level: 3.4
EAN: 9780316324908

Overview

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!

Details

Pages: 56
Dimensions: 10 x 10.2 x 0.6 in
Lexile Score: 590
Interest Level: Lower Grade (LG)
Point Value: 0.5
ISBN: 0316324906

Awards

2016 Caldecott Medal - Winner (Picture Book)
2016 Charlotte Zolotow Award - Honor Book (Picture Book Text)