The One With Ice Makers and Squeaky Cars #sol16.Read With: Tito Puente: Mambo King by Monica Brown, The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors by Chris Barton, Me, Jane by Jane Goodall, Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet, The Right Word by Jennifer Bryant, Enormous Smallness by Matthew Burgess In the snatch of text students can look for alliteration and a metaphor as well. I also suggest looking closely at the details in the text and how the specificity of the description helps to bring the story to life. Students can pay attention to how the text helps set the mood and how the illustrations do as well. Books like Tito Puente: Mambo King or The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of Bob and Joe Switzer's Bright Ideas and Brand-New Colors would be perfect to be able to notice the difference in how each of these books brings to life the essence of the people they talk about. All in all, it just all comes together so well.Īs a mentor text, I would pay attention to the tone and the mood and even pick a few texts to compare and contrast. Even more wonderful is that Harry, the man who takes in Winnie seems like a very kind and down-to-earth sort of man. A little boy asks his mom to tell him a story and there are pages with them snuggled up together as she tells the story.

I love how the gentle illustrations match the tone of the text.but especially how this is perfect for the context of the story as this is actually a story within a story. I read it with my kids and they were fascinated too. I had no idea this was the story at all and it's so sweet. As I read it was like cuddling up with Winnie the Pooh and learning about his story.

Of course, it's an award-winner and that usually means it's awesome but it really and truly is. What I Think: I fell in love with this book the first time I read it. Here is the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. 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.Īnd finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. GoodReads Summary: Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers Title: Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear

Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick