Finding Winnie

The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Media Type:Video
Genre(s):Biographies & Memoirs
Classics
ISBN:9781520014531
Director(s):Lindsay Mattick
Illustrator(s):Sophie Blackall
Run Time:22 Minutes
Language:English

Video

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. Based on the 2016 Caldecott Medal winner, Finding Winnie is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.