Finding Winnie Book Report

The book Finding Winnie, by Lindsay Mattick is about a Veterinarian, Harry Colebourn, from Canada that went to World War I in 1914 to take care of the soldier’s horses. On his way to War he bought a bear and took him to War with him. This book tells a story about the bear that inspired Winnie-The-Pooh one of the most famous bears in the world. The book is based on a real life story and brings the character to life.
The book starts by introducing Harry as a sweet veterinarian that loves animals so much that he would go off to war far away from his home to help the horses there. When the day came for Harry to go off to the war he saw a hunter with a baby bear at the train station. Even knowing that it was a bad idea and too dangerous to bring a cub to a war he decided to buy the bear for twenty dollars. He named the bear Winnie after his hometown Winnipeg. Even though the Colonel and some of the soldiers were not convinced
The pictures follow the story pretty closely, children who cannot read could still tell their stories to themselves by visual literacy. The book is mostly surrounded by positive space, however the illustrator made sure to not overwhelm the readers and provided some negative space in between images on some pages. There is one page in specific that brought my attention to the use of lines in this book and it is a curved pathway that leads the soldiers with food to Winnie to feed him, just like a curve line suggest it is bringing calmness to Winnie as she is about to be fed. A very interesting use of shapes in the book is the circles, as they suggest importance. There are many circles in the book, but the major one is the circle of the tent where Winnie is hanging from, she is right in the middle of it so it reassures the reader how important she is and basically means that she is the center of