Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear /
By: Mattick, Lindsay
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Contributor(s): Blackall, Sophie [illustrator].
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BookPublisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2015Edition: First Canadian edition.Description: [50] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781443429184 (hardcover).Subject(s): 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 -- CanadaDDC classification: PICTURE Summary: 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.
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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.
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