PICTURE BOOK REVIEWs: Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick and Winnie by Sally M. Walker
FINDING WINNIE The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick, illustrated by Sophie Blackall Little, Brown and Company, 2015 ISBN: 978-0-316-32490-8 Source: purchased All opinions expressed are solely my own. ABOUT THE BOOK Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear 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 a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England... And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. REVIEW It's interesting that two picture books ...