LBYR</br></br>Product Description</br></br><div><b>A #1 <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller and Winner of the 2016 Caldecott Medal</b></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>Before Winnie-the-Pooh?? there was a real bear named Winnie.</i><i> And she was a girl!</i></div><br>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.<br><br>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...<br><br>And finally to the London Zoo?? where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.<br><br>Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.<br></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316324906