A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable True Story of the Bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
And she was a girl.
Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real Bear named Winnie.
And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.
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...
He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the Bear to war.
In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable True Story of the Bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
