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2015., Pre-adolescent, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 599.78 5 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie and brought her along to the military camp in England. Before long, she became the regiment's much-loved mascot. But who could care for the bear when Harry went to battle? Harry found just the right place for Winnie--the London Zoo. There a boy named Christopher Robin played with Winnie--he could care for this bear too!.
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2015., Primary, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: 599.78 Wal Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When Harry Colebourn saw a baby bear at a train station, he knew he could care for it. Harry was a veterinarian. But he was also a soldier in training during World War I. Harry named the bear Winnie, short for Winnipeg, his company's home town, and he brought her along to the military camp in England. Winnie followed Harry everywhere and slept under his cot every night. Before long, she became the regiment's much-loved mascot. But who could care for the bear when Harry went to battle? Harry found just the right place for Winnie--the London Zoo. There a boy named Christopher Robin played with Winnie--he could care for this bear too!"--Provided by publisher.
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[2015]., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Company Call No: 599.7 BEAR WAL Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the true story of the bear named Winnie that inspired the stories of Winnie-the-Pooh. When Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian in World War I, found a tiny bear for sale at a train station, he bought and cared for the cub. When Harry shipped out to France, he gave her to the London Zoo, where she was visited by author A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin, who named his own stuffed bear after her, thus inspiring the famous stories. Includes black-and-white photographs.