For best effect, pair this book, very artfully illustrated and told, with the original, glorious Pooh stories. And the rest, of course, is literary history. Before they see active fighting, he gives the bear, Winnie, to the London Zoo, where she's befriended by Christopher Robin, the son of A.A. The true story is told as a bedtime tale by the author, who's actually the great-granddaughter of the protagonist, and begins in Canada, when a young veterinarian, a soldier in World War I, saves a bear cub and brings her with his unit to Europe. The story is complex, written as three stories in one, so it could be confusing for kids under 4. Parents need to know that Lindsay Mattick's Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, which won the 2016 Caldecott Medal for illustrator Sophie Blackall ( The Baby Tree, Ivy + Bean), is a nonfiction picture book about the real-bear inspiration for the children's classic Winnie-the-Pooh - though it reads like spellbinding fiction. Finding Winnie: The true story of the world’s most famous bear.
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