Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
Title:
Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
Author:
Mattick, Lindsay.
Blackall, Sophie.
ISBN:
9780316324908
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2015.
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Abstract:
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
Subject:
| Winnipeg (Bear) -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Winnipeg (Bear) -- Fiction. |
| Bears -- Fiction. |
| Soldiers -- Fiction. |
| Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 -- Fiction. |
| Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. |
| Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Fiction. |
Summary:
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.