Ranked #31 in Zoos, Ranked #41 in Compassion — see more rankings.
Before there was Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie.
In 1914, during World War I, Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to serve with cavalry units in Europe, rescued a bear cub in White River, Ontario. He named the bear Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter Lindsay Mattick recounts their incredible journey, from a northern Canadian town to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . . and finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made a new...
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Finding Winnie is ranked in the following categories:
- #81 in 1st Grade
- #71 in 2nd Grade
- #61 in 6-Year-Old
- #57 in 7-Year-Old
- #94 in Easy
- #81 in Picture
- #64 in World War I