Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.

By:

Mattick, Lindsay

Contributor(s):

Blackall, Sophie

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	NMC Library	Picture Book Collection	PZ7.1 .M38 FIN 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	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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