You learn about the history of Winnie and this is a great story. I love the pictures at the end of the book about everything that happened. A picture of Harry, his journal the day he bought Winnie, Pictures of Winnie in the army, and pictures of Winnie in the Zoo with Christopher Robin. This is the history of the famous bear. I didn't think there was a real bear and sure enough, there is. Well, the author, Lindsay, it he granddaughter of Harry so she is also part of this story. It is a fantastic...

What is it with bears and WWI? Aw, heck. Let’s expand that question a tad. 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. If it’s not Midnight, A True Story of Loyalty in World War I by Mark Greenwood or Stubby, the War 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-...

November is always the time of year where I commemorate the World Wars. This year is weird in many ways and it affected my plans. Nevertheless, I didn’t want this month to come and go without having done at least one little thing in memory of all those fallen and those terrible years, all in one century. Thus, I read this book.Winnie the Pooh is a name almost everyone on the planet has heard. Enchanting stories for young and old about a (toy) bear and his boy, Christopher Robin.What not too many...

The story of the real bear who inspired the name of Winnie the Pooh. The story starts with a little boy asking for a story and mum telling how a WWI soldier bought a baby bear from a trapper as a mascot for his troupe. The rest of the story switches between the historical story and the mum telling the bedtime story which ends with them looking at a photo album, in this are photos of Winnie and soldier Harry, Christopher Robin meeting the bear and diary entries for the time. The author's son who

What a lovely book. Will work for children, but for also anyone of any age who has fond memories of Winnie-the-Pooh. I had no inkling of the story behind the iconic tales from A.A. Milne, but this lovely picture book gave me a richer sense of the reality behind the books that were such a part of my mother's childhood, my childhood, and my daughter's. It's so wonderful I'm planning on giving a copy to my 91-year old mother-in-law who not only is British by birth, but spent many years in Canada. M...

[Book #14 for my grad school Children's Lit class]

Utterly charming. I loved the story within a story, and the album at the end with real photographs of Winnie, Harry, and Christopher Robin. The art is utterly charming, and best of all, it's a story you can actually read to a small child! Too often nonfiction picture books are far too wordy and dry, and you lose the child's attention after one page. But here there was just the right balance of well-placed, age-appropriate words and pictures. Lovely book!

This story really impressed me. I loved how the author wove three, true stories into this book. It is the true story of how Winnie-the-Pooh became the beloved story book character that we all know today. The illustrations were bright and colorful and I loved the "album" in the back of the book that showed real photos of Harry, Winnie, Christopher Robin, and the author with her baby Cole. Read it. I was so pleased with this book that I even had my husband read it. He, too, loved it. It just feels...

Absolutely glorious. Winnie the Pooh is red hot right now. This is the second bio of Pooh picture book in a year. The illustrations are detailed and brilliant. This may be Sophie Blackalls best work to date. It is definitely worthy of the Caldecott. I think the author (cool backstory there), lives in Canada which would unfortunately make the title ineligible. Sure hope I am wrong because the text and illustrations are marvelous.

My daughter brought this cute book home from the school library. It was fun to read with my family and watch my daughters have some "aha" moments connecting the stories being shared in this book to the story of Winnie-the-Pooh. We all enjoyed the artwork and how it connected with pictures from a family photo album at the end. A really neat story telling us about the real Winnie-the-Pooh and how she came to help inspire the creation of the beloved and well loved books of A.A. Milne. We especially...

Although I do appreciate that with Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, author Lindsay Mattick is actually telling the reader her own family's story with the framed narrative of a mother (who is clearly meant to represent herself) telling her little son Cole about his great-great-grandfather Harry Colebourne and Winnie the bear (how he saved Winnie's life as a cub and named her Winnipeg after Harry's hometown, how she became his army unit's mascot while they were train...

I was very hesitant to read Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear because I'm such a huge fan of Milne's stories and I was afraid that knowing the true story would somehow ruin them especially with the WWI aspect. I'm delighted to say that I was pleasantly surprised by how gentle, sweet, and warmhearted the telling of the real Winnie's story is here and I appreciate the sensitivity with which the author portrayed the soldiers and their experience (we never see Harry in t...

This book. That bear. Quotable, full of love and history, and a feat of story within story.

Magical, kind,gentle; perfect potion for your soul. Take note of the little b&w sketches in the low corners, they speak beyond words.

Finding Winnie: The True Story of theWorld's Most Famous Bearby Lindsay Mattick, Sophie BlackallBefore Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.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...

Well that was ridiculously adorable. What a fantastic story.