![]() ![]() Tenderly illustrated by the inimitable Sophie Blackall, this story-within-a-story begins with Mattick herself recounting the adventures of Harry and his bear to her own son, Cole, named after Captain Colebourn. And since I clearly live in a bear-cave where the world often passes me by, may the record reflect that this is most emphatically a superb, if belated, addition to the best children’s books of 2015. Milne wrote for his young son, Christopher Robin - a story Captain Colebourn’s great-granddaughter, Lindsay Mattick, tells in the impossibly wonderful Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear ( public library). ![]() ![]() So began the unlikely true story that inspired one of the most beloved children’s books of all time, Winnie-the-Pooh, which A.A. There, a little boy named Christopher Robin befriended Winnie and named his teddy bear after her. When his unit was eventually summoned to go to battle, he did the hardest thing he ever had to do - he parted with Winnie to save her life, taking her to the London Zoo. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and took her to the front, where she became his most beloved friend. On August 24, 1914, a kindly Canadian veterinarian named Harry Colebourn bought a baby bear from a trapper at a train station, where he had taken respite on his way to heal horses injured in World War I. ![]()
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