He brought her to the London Zoo, which agreed to care for Winnie for the duration of the war. But when the time came to deploy to France, he realized that Winnie would not be safe. The bear stayed with him, becoming a regiment mascot, through months of battlefield training in miserable weather.
He named the bear Winnie, after his native Winnipeg, and continued to the east coast of Canada, where he boarded a ship - with Winnie and his new regiment - to England. Against his better judgement, the vet bought the bear for $20 and re-boarded the train. Actually, it was a bear cub tied to a string, held by a trapper. In 1914, a Canadian veterinarian on his way to treat World War I battlefield horses got off his train on a platform in White River, Ontario, and saw a bear cub. (Courtesy Mattick Family) This article is more than 7 years old. For best effect, pair this book, very artfully illustrated and told, with the original, glorious Pooh stories.Winnie the real bear pictured with the Canadian regiment training in England. And the rest, of course, is literary history. Before they see active fighting, he gives the bear, Winnie, to the London Zoo, where she's befriended by Christopher Robin, the son of A.A.
The true story is told as a bedtime tale by the author, who's actually the great-granddaughter of the protagonist, and begins in Canada, when a young veterinarian, a soldier in World War I, saves a bear cub and brings her with his unit to Europe. The story is complex, written as three stories in one, so it could be confusing for kids under 4. Parents need to know that Lindsay Mattick's Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear, which won the 2016 Caldecott Medal for illustrator Sophie Blackall ( The Baby Tree, Ivy + Bean), is a nonfiction picture book about the real-bear inspiration for the children's classic Winnie-the-Pooh - though it reads like spellbinding fiction. They don't raise bears."ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. The text reads: "That bear lost his mother," he thought, "and that man must be the trapper who got her." And when Cole (the young boy being told the story) asks what trappers do, his mom replies, "It's what trappers don't do. The violence in WWI is implied but never shown, since Winnie's delivered to the London Zoo when "the time had come to fight." There's also violence implied when Harry first meets Winnie.
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