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Mattick, Lindsay

Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear / by Lindsay Mattick ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall. - First edition. - 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

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.

AD590L Lexile Decoding demand: 78 (high) Semantic demand: 86 (very high) Syntactic demand: 87 (very high) Structure demand: 85 (very high) Lexile



ISBN: 9780316324908 0316324906

LCCN: 2014041122

Subjects--Personal Names:
Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 --Juvenile literature.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) --Juvenile literature.
Milne, A. A. 1882-1956 --Juvenile literature.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Winnipeg (Bear)--Juvenile literature.
Bears--Juvenile literature
Soldiers--Juvenile literature.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.M38 / Fin 2015

Dewey Class. No.: [E]