Finding Winnie Av Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall

<B>A #1 <I>New York Times</I> Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. </B><br><br> 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.<br><br> 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...<br><br> And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.<br><br> Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl!