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Mattick, Lindsay

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

56 pp. | Little | October, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-32490-8 $18.00

(1) K-3 Illustrated by Sophie Blackall. A boy's mother tells him the story of his great-great-grandfather, owner of a baby bear named Winnie, and the circumstances that led to another boy, Christopher Robin Milne, befriending Winnie--inspiring that boy's father to write some children's tales. Mattick, the storytelling mother in this book, embellishes her family's history with evocative, playful language, matched by the period warmth of Blackall's carefully composed images.

Reviewer: Thom Barthelmess | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2015