Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear
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Name: Finding Winnie : the true story of the world's most famous bear /
Author: Mattick, Lindsay

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Author

Mattick, Lindsay

Contributors

Blackall, Sophie, illustrator.

Published

New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

ISBN

9780316324908 (hardcover), 0316324906 (hardcover)

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LC Subjects

Bears -- Juvenile literature.
Colebourn, Harry, 1887-1947 -- Juvenile literature.
Literature.
Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956 -- Juvenile literature.
Soldiers -- Juvenile literature.
Winnie-the-Pooh (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile literature.
Winnipeg (Bear) -- Juvenile literature.

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Format

Book

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm

Language

English

Accelerated Reader

LG
Level 3.4, 1 Points

Lexile code

Lexile measure

590

Notes

Other Title

True story of the world's most famous bear

General Note

Includes album of portraits and diary at back of book.

Description

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.

Target Audience

AD590L Lexile

Target Audience

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

Study Program Information

Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.4 0.5 176655.

Awards

Caldecott Medal winner, 2016.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)

Mattick, L., & Blackall, S. (2015). Finding Winnie: the true story of the world's most famous bear. (First edition). Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Mattick, Lindsay and Sophie, Blackall. 2015. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear. Little, Brown and Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Mattick, Lindsay and Sophie, Blackall. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear. Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)

Mattick, L. and Blackall, S. (2015). Finding winnie: the true story of the world's most famous bear. First edn New York: Little, Brown and Company.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)

Mattick, Lindsay, and Sophie Blackall. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear. First edition, Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

Note: Citations contain only title, author, edition, and publisher. Only UCL Harvard citations contain the year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of May 2025.

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