Told in similar fashion to Goldman’s The Princes Bride, Mattick serves as the narrator to her son, Cole, telling him the true story of ‘his’ bear. I didn’t anticipate the depth and beauty it would actually bring. I bought this book thinking it would be a cute children’s story, but it was so much more than that. The result is a one-of-kind exploration of the realities of war, the meaning of courage, and the indelible power of friendship, all told through the historic adventures of one extraordinary bear. Told in beautifully crafted language and infused with Sophie Blackall’s irresistible renderings of an endearing bear, the book is also woven through with actual entries from Captain Harry Colebourn’s wartime diaries. In a triumphant blending of deeply researched history and magnificent imagination, we follow our irrepressible Bear on her journey - from her infancy in the woods of Ontario, to her unlikely friendship with Captain Harry Colebourn and her time as the mascot of the Second Canadian Infantry Brigade, to her experiences in wartime London before she met Christopher Robin Milne. Now, the creative team behind the bestselling picture book has reunited to bring you Winnie’s Great War. The story of the real bear that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh has been capturing readers’ imaginations since the publication of the Caldecott Medal award-winning picture book, Finding Winnie.īut there was so much left to be told – not just about Winnie, but about the great world events she witnessed. A wartime adventure unfolds through the eyes of the world’s most beloved Bear.

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