Mattick, Lindsay

Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / - First Canadian edition. - [50] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

During World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick recounts their incredible journey, from a northern Canadian town to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . . and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new friend: a boy named Christopher Robin.

9781443429184 (hardcover)


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


Canada. Canadian Armed Forces --Mascots--Juvenile fiction.


Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character)--History--Juvenile fiction.
Winnipeg (Bear)--Juvenile fiction.
Black bear--Juvenile fiction.
Bears--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Canada.

PICTURE / MATTICK