Bear stood straight up on her hind legs as if to salute the Colonel. The colonel stopped speaking at once -- and then, in quite a different voice, he said, "Oh, hallo."
The men of Harry's regiment squeezed by to have a look.
"I've decided to name her Winnipeg," Harry told them, "so we'll never be far from home. Winnie, for short."

In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war.

Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey--from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England . . .

And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin.