Illustrator’s agent: Nancy Gallt, Nancy Gallt Literary Agency. Author’s agent: Jackie Kaiser, Westwood Creative Artists. While her work usually has a strong streak of fantasy, or at least ethereal otherworldliness, she proves that she’s equally imaginative at chronicling straight-on reality, too.
It also suits Blackall ( A Fine Dessert) to a T. Framed as a bedtime story that Mattick tells her toddler son, Cole (who interjects questions such as “Is twenty dollars a lot?”), the book strikes a lovely, understated tone of wonder and family pride. Knowing Winnie couldn’t follow him to France, Harry arranged for a new home for her at London Zoo, where a boy named Christopher Robin discovered her, and the rest is literary history. Winnie’s story spans for over a hundred years when Captain Harry Colebourn, a Canadian veterinarian, rescued a special bear from a trapper and bought him for 20 at the train station on his way to fight. She accompanied Harry to England and became the mascot of the Second Canadian Infantry Brigade. Before heading to the theatres to watch Christopher Robin and his beloved bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, first, there was a real bear named Winnie. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war.Harry Colebourns 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. Harry Colebourn, the Canadian veterinarian who set all things Winnie-the-Pooh in motion: while en route to join his unit during WWI, Harry rescued an orphaned bear cub from a trapper (it cost him $20) and named her Winnipeg (Winnie for short), after his hometown. Mattick is the great-granddaughter of Capt.
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