As a vet he had the skills and the knowledge to make his plan work. The last thing you should do is buy a baby bear cub at a train station, right? I suppose that was the crazy thing about Harry, though. You’re headed to training for the Western Front where you’ll be a service vet, aiding the horses there. Add in the luminous artwork of Sophie Blackall and you’ve got yourself a historical winner on your hands. The other? Written by one of the descendants of the veterinarian that started it all. One book was researched and thought through carefully. But Finding Winnie has an advantage over the Walker bio that cannot be denied.
The first of these books was Winnie: The True Story of the Bear That Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh by Sally M. With the anniversary of WWI here, the children’s literary sphere has witnessed not one but two picture book biographies of Winnie, the real bear that inspired Christopher Robin Milne and, in turn, his father A.A. If it’s not Midnight, A True Story of Loyalty in World War I by Mark Greenwood or Stubby the War Dog: The True Story of WWI’s Bravest Dog by Ann Bausum, it’s Voytek, the Polish munitions bear in Soldier Bear or, best known of them all, the inspiration for Winnie-the-Pooh. What is it with adorable animals and WWI? Seems these days no matter where you turn you find a new book commemorating a noble creature’s splendor and sacrifice on the battlefields of Europe. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear 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.
and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new friend: a boy named Christopher Robin. 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. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. 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. Read Or Download Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear By Lindsay Mattick Full Pages.īefore there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
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