Book
Finding Winnie
- Published
- 2015
- Genre
- Children's
- Publisher
- Wei jing guo ji gu fen you xian gong si
- Pages
- 52
- Words
- 1525
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24819508-finding-winnie?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 3.4
- AR interest level
- LG — lower grades, K–3
- Lexile
- 590L
- Lexile code
- AD — adult-directed
- Suggested reading age
- ages 5–9
In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick recounts their incredible journey, from a northern Canadian town to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . . and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new friend: a boy named Christopher Robin. Gentle yet haunting illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Sophie Blackall bring the wartime era to life, and are complemented by photographs and ephemera from the Colebourn family archives. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
Collections
Beautiful Feet · AWPB2 — Around the World with Picture Books (series 2)
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9789864400744
- ISBN-10
- 9864400746
Tags
AnimalsBearBeautiful FeetCanadaChildren'sNonfictionWar