Milne to write the story of Winnie-the-Pooh, while Colebourn returns home to Canada at the end of the war to start a family. There the bear makes friends with a boy named Christopher Robin and inspires A. When the regiment moves to the front in France, Colebourn finds a home for Winnie at London Zoo.
After first being skeptical of the bear, she becomes Colebourn's regiment's mascot, accompanying the soldiers to training in England. 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. In 1914, veterinarian Harry Colebourn, Mattick's grandfather, rides a train across Canada on his way to serve in World War I. The book is told by a mother, the author Mattick, telling a story of her great-grandfather to her son. The original book was released as an audiobook in April 2016 and was narrated by Erin Moon. The book was published in October 2015 and was later expanded into a 144-page book, Winnie's Great War. īefore its publication, the book's movie rights were optioned. As an adult, she learned more about her great-grandfather, who never knew his role in inspiring the book, while reading his diaries from fighting in World War I saying, "The joy and love Harry found in adopting Winnie is in stark contrast to the realities of WWI." She was moved to write the book to explain her son Cole's name to him. Author Lindsay Mattick loved hearing the story of her great-grandfather as a child. Blackall also had an affinity for Winnie-the-Pooh, as the book was the first she ever bought with her own money. In particular, Blackall, and the book's editor, both cited Blackall's decision to immigrate to New York just as Winnie would move from Canada to Europe.
Sophie Blackall agreed to illustrate the book, even though she was not planning to accept new book assignments, because she felt that her own story was like that of the bear Winnie. The book's writing and illustrations were well reviewed and it won the 2016 Caldecott Medal. Finding Winnie was thoroughly researched by both Blackall and Mattick. Her great-grandfather, Harry Colebourn bought a bear on his way to fight in World War I, donating the bear to a zoo where it became the inspiration for the character of Winnie-the-Pooh.
The non-fiction book is framed as a story Mattick is telling to her son. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear is a 2015 children's book written by Canadian author Lindsay Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
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