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Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316324908 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • [E] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.M38 Fin 2015
Awards:
  • Caldecott medal, 2016.
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Caldecott Winners
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Picture Book Picture Book NMC Library Picture Book Collection PZ7.1 .M38 FIN 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001384329

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.

Caldecott medal, 2016.

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