Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. 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. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
- | Author: Lindsay Mattick
- | Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- | Publication Date: October 20, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 56 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0316324906
- | ISBN-13: 9780316324908
