By Sally M. Walker
Illustrated by Jonathan D. Voss
This story Winnie is the true story behind the infamous children's book and cartoon "Winnie the Pooh". Dr. Harry Colebourn who was a vetenarian, but also a soldier in training during World War I, on his way to advance training he saw a baby bear at the train station being sold by a man for $20. Dr. Coleburn knew that he could care for it so he paid for the bear, named him Winnie which was short for Winniepeg, his company's hometown. Dr. Coleburn bought Winnie everywhere he went and before long, Winnie instantly became the company's mascot. But because Dr. Coleburn had no one to care for Winnie during the battle, he thought the perfect place for Winnie would be the London zoo. Shortly after that, a famous writer named A.A. Milne brought his young son, Christopher Robbin to the zoo and he was immediately drawn to Winnie. Eventually, A.A. Milne begin to write stories about Winnie, and the stories of "Winnie the Pooh" were made.
The genere of this book is nonfiction, in excellent nonfiction, facts and theories are clearly distiguished (Galda, Cullinan,&Sipe, 2010) In which the author Sally M. Walker did, she focused on the backgorind story of how Dr. Coleburn found Winnie, and they all of the facts that came with how the now infamous "Winnie the Pooh" was created. The illustration of this book was very appealing, and each illustration complimented the text. The mixed media techniques was of ink and very neutral water colors, using colors like brown, greens, and black. The syle of art that was represented in each illustration, was the outline style. The outline style of art emphasizes line and often reduces features to simplified shapes (Galda,Cullinan,Sipe, 2010)
Classroom Activities
1. Students will be given a parts of the story and will be putting them in order from beginning to end.
2. Students will wite a pargraph explaining what they would have done if they would have met Winnie.
Reader Response Questions
1. Where did Dr. Coleburn find Winnie?
2. Where did Dr. Coleburn get the name Winnie from?
3. Why did Winnie have to go to the London zoo?
4. Who became friends with Winnie at the Zoo?
Personal Comments
I find this book to be very intriguing, and I think children K-5 will love this book too. Children know of "Winnie the Pooh" but after reading this book they will know where the bear really comes from and how it is a true story.
References
Galda, L., Cullinan, B., & Sipe, L. (2010). Literature and the Child (7 ed.). Belmont: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.
Walker, S. M., & Voss, J. D. (2015). Winnie: The true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh.
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