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Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Caldecott Medal Winner)

Lindsay Mattick, Sophie Blackall

A #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Caldecott Medal about the remarkable true story of the bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. 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. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl!

Randolph Caldecott Medal
Moon Tiger (Re-Issue) (Penguin Essentials)
Viking

Moon Tiger (Re-Issue) (Penguin Essentials)

Penelope Lively

As Claudia Hampton faces death, she reconstructs her life while setting it against the history of the world. The novel traces female agency, layered time, and lost love through a precise and lyrical voice.

Booker Prize
The Bamboo Stalk
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA

The Bamboo Stalk

Saud Alsanousi, Jonathan Wright

Josephine Mendoza escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid, where she meets Rashid, an idealistic only son with literary aspirations. Josephine, with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of war growing ever louder, Rashid bows to family and social pressure, and sends her back home with her baby son, José. Brought up struggling with his dual identity, José clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen. He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants and dictators is nothing compared to the fear of 'what will people say.' And with a Filipino face, a Kuwaiti passport, an Arab surname and a Christian first name, will his father's country welcome him? The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries and confronts the universal problems of identity, race and religion.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction
On the Road With Del & Louise
Lightning Source Inc

On the Road With Del & Louise

Art Taylor

Del, who robs convenience stores to pay for school, and Louise, who becomes his unexpected partner, are followed through six linked stories. The book balances the danger of crime with the lightness of romance, letting their relationship shift and deepen from one stop on the road to the next.

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