A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal
about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired
Winnie-the-Pooh.
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.
Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was
a girl!