![]() 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. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg and he took the bear with him to war. 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. Finding Winnie is the true story of Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to take care of horses in World War I, who follow his heart and rescued a baby bear. She accompanied Harry to England and became the mascot of the Second Canadian Infantry Brigade. 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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