{"id":14384,"date":"2018-09-07T12:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?post_type=product&p=14384"},"modified":"2022-09-20T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:13:13","slug":"finding-winnie","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/finding-winnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Winnie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
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 friend: a boy named Christopher Robin.<\/p>\n
Gentle yet haunting illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Sophie Blackall bring the wartime era to life, and are complemented by photographs and ephemera from the Colebourn family archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"