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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 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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