Phoenix Distribution Finding Winnie: The Story of the Real Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh
Orchard Books
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b><i>Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.</i></b></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;">Here begins the moving true story of the real bear named Winnie adopted by soldiers during World War 1, and the inspiration behind the nation's best-loved bear, Winnie-the-Pooh. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;">In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a vet on his way to tend horses in World War 1, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, and he took her to war. 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 an army base in England . . . and finally to London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend - a boy named Christopher Robin Milne. . .</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; line-height: 17px; caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;">Finding Winnie</i><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 86, 90); color: rgb(83, 86, 90); font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 14px;"> was the winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal!</span></p>
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