Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Mattick, Lindsay

Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall. - First edition. - New York Little, Brown and Company - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

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.

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Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 Juvenile Fiction
Winnipeg (Bear) Juvenile Fiction
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) --Juvenile Fiction
Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 Fiction


Bears
Soldiers

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