Writing prompts: Write About It, Think About It. Can also be used for assessment purposes. This journal can be used a few pages at a time or as a packet. This 51 page journal includes many graphic organizers, constructed response questions and a week's worth of activities. Milne to write the classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories. 'People don't even realise that there was a real bear.Help your students explore this wonderful Caldecott nonfiction story of the bear that inspired A.A. 'I'm still blown away that, while a lot of people in Canada certainly know the story and know the history now, around the world it's really still not known. 'I want people who love 'Winnie the Pooh' to understand that the real story behind her is just as beautiful and just as amazing,' Mattick said. Mattick told the Winnipeg Free Press she wrote the story so her young family - and Winnie lovers all over the world - could know the real story behind the books. Milne, who went on to write the incredibly successful series of Winnie the Pooh books. The young boy was so enamoured with the bear that he named his own toy teddy after her.Ĭhristopher Robin's father was author A.A. Finding an orphaned female bear on the platform of a Winnipeg railway station for sale for 20 (472 today), he names it 'Winnie' after his hometown of Winnipeg. It was here that a young Christopher Robin first came across Winnie. In 1914, veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Mattick's grandfather, rides a train across Canada on his way to serve in World War I. When Colebourn was deployed to France, he asked the London Zoo to take her in. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, Canada, and took her with him to London, where she became the regiment mascot. Lindsay Mattick, Harry Colebourns great-granddaughter, is the vice-president of an award-winning public relations firm.Based in Toronto, she has shared Harry and Winnies story around the world. Born in Winnipeg, Lindsay spent her summer days collecting lucky stones on the shores of Lake Winnipeg, finding adventures in her red wagon. Just before leaving Canada for London in 1914, Colebourn saw a bear cub tied to a piece of a string from inside the train he was on.Ĭolebourn immediately hopped off the train and purchased the bear for $20. Lindsay Mattick is the author of Finding Winnie, a new picture book which explores her family’s unique connection to the world’s most famous bear, Winnie-the-Pooh.

It is also a tale of friendship between man and rescued female bear behind the A.A. School Library Journal (c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media. Canadian author Lindsay Mattick recently released Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, a children's book that tells the story of Mattick's great-grandfather Harry Colebourn, a World War I veterinarian. by Lindsay Mattick Publishers Weekly (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC.

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