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Cargando... Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (2015)por Lindsay Mattick
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is told through the lens of a mother to her son, as she tells him a bedtime story. The story is of his great-great grandfather in WWI befriending a bear named Winnie. This bear later becomes the friend of Christopher Robin and inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. I would use with lower elementary to introduce historical context after or before reading a Winnie the Pooh story. Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear is a Caldecott winning nonfiction picture book that will wow the reader. In this remarkably true story a soldier named Colebourn who is shipping off to World War I saves a bear who he names Winnie. Colebourn takes Winnie with him to the base and she quickly becomes the mascot for peace and freedom. But she can't go to the front lines so Colebourn decides to take her to the London Zoo. Mattick portrays the love between Colebourn and Winnie as Colebourn acts upon his heart. The story is told by Mattick to her son accounting for the events of her great-grandfather who bought a bear which became the inspiration for the character Winnie-the-Pooh.
Right from the start I was intrigued by the book’s framing sequence. Here we have a bit of nonfiction for kids, and yet all throughout the book we’re hearing Cole interjecting his comments as his mother tells him this story. It’s a unique way of presenting what is already an interesting narrative in a particularly child-friendly manner. But why do it at all? What I kept coming back to as I read the book was how much it made the story feel like A.A. Milne’s. Anyone who has attempted to read the first Winnie-the-Pooh book to their small children will perhaps be a bit surprised by the extent to which Christopher Robin’s voice keeps popping up, adding his own color commentary to the proceedings. Cole’s voice does much the same thing, and once I realized that Mattick was playing off of Milne’s classic, other Winnie-the-Pooh callbacks caught my eye. Está renarrado enPremiosListas de sobresalientes
En 1914, Harry Colebourn, un veterinario canadiense que viajaba de camino a Europa para atender a los caballos que peleaban en la Primera Guerra Mundial, no pudo evitar la tentación de comprar una cría de oso que un cazador vendía en una estación de tren. Harry la llamó Winnie en honor a Winnipeg, su ciudad natal, y la llevó consigo a los campo de entrenamiento en Inglaterra. Sin embargo, cuando Harry tenía que partir a la guerra, supo que Winnie no podría acompañarlo, y la llevó al único lugar donde pensó que la cuidarían: el zoológico de Londres. Fue ahí donde A.A. Milne, de la mando del pequeño Christopher Robin, la encontró. Y así empezó la historia sobre un oso barrigón que todos conocemos ...
A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book tells the story of the bear behind the character of Winnie the Pooh.
This book could be useful when demonstrating the deeper stories behind beloved characters or teaching about writing research reports. ( )