It's also much more appropriate for the intended audience. Without doubt, the story presented here is superior, in part because of the sentimental factor of its being written by the great-granddaughter of Captain Harry Colebourn, the man who adopted the real Winnipeg "Winnie" the bear in 1914. Of the two it was ultimately Blackall's neat, clean, highly detailed illustrations that won out and earned the Caldecott medal for this book.
Kind of funny how that happened, huh? They both feature incredibly gorgeous artwork. Milne’s classic stories will be enchanted by this heartening account of the bear’s real-life origins.I didn't think there would be any topping the other Caldecott honor true story of Winnie-The-Pooh picture book released in the same year and covering basically identical content ( Winnie: The True Story of the Bear Who Inspired Winnie-the-Pooh). The visuals not only complement the fablelike cadences of Mattick’s text but also include subtle details that enrich the story-the opening pages, for instance, recall a storybook forest before melting into the surroundings of Cole’s bedroom, where he hears the story of Colebourn and Winnie. Blackall’s warm, beautiful gouache-and-ink illustrations capture an impressive depth of feeling, even in relatively simplified faces. There Christopher Robin met Winnie and the rest is literary history. Winnie accompanied the soldiers all the way to England, where Colebourn eventually took Winnie to the London Zoo.
Though officers in Colebourn’s division were initially aghast that he would bring a wild animal along, they were quickly won over by her irrepressible charm (and appetite), and the bear, named Winnipeg after their hometown, became the division’s mascot. A fateful whistle-stop encounter with a gentle bear cub begins the historic friendship, when Colebourn buys the cub for 20 dollars. Framed as Mattick telling a bedtime story to her young son, Cole, her tale begins in 1914 in Canada, when veterinarian Harry Colebourn, her own great-grandfather, sets off to join the war in Europe. Mattick’s family ties to Winnie-the-Pooh form the backbone of her cozy debut.
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