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 …show more content…
about having a bear with them, they accepted Winnie because she was a smart bear. However, the day to go off to war in England came, and after giving the situation some thought Harry decided to take Winnie to London with him. Sadly, after getting to London they had to go to War and it was too dangerous for Harry to bring Winnie along, so he decided to take her to a the London Zoo. At the Zoo she would be safer and have the attention she needed, as she grew older and bigger. Just like Harry thought Winnie was happy at the zoo and made another friend, Christopher Robin, a boy who visited her and played with her when Harry could not be there.
This book teaches children to have compassion for animals and how meaningful it is to help animals when they need us the most. I enjoyed this book because it is based on a true story. I grew up watching Winnie-The-Pooh; it is a bear that most adults from my generation recognize as a wonderful childhood memory. The fact that this book gives the readers the true story about the bear that inspired Winnie-The-Pooh is incredible and brought tears to my eyes. I definitely like this book and would read it to my kids one day.
I believe that the illustrations in the book enhance the story and are appealing to children because of how colorful and cartoon like they are.
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
attention.
When I drew the images about this book I noticed that the medium has a major impact on the delivery of the message and how important it is to have an illustrator that can do a good job to make images that would make the reader feel like part of the story by making it as realistic as possible. The colors make an impression of vitality and reality that compliment the story specially because this book is based on a true story. Also, another thing that affects the message is artistic style. My drawings show lack of artistic skills so my style could be for children who are younger and do not know how to draw yet because they would find the drawings closer to what they could draw. So I think the artistic style and skill have a lot to do with the age group one is trying to approach as well as the message one is trying to deliver and how deep of a message it is. I believe hat the deeper of a message it is the less colorful or animated the book will be.
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 …show more content…
about having a bear with them, they accepted Winnie because she was a smart bear. However, the day to go off to war in England came, and after giving the situation some thought Harry decided to take Winnie to London with him. Sadly, after getting to London they had to go to War and it was too dangerous for Harry to bring Winnie along, so he decided to take her to a the London Zoo. At the Zoo she would be safer and have the attention she needed, as she grew older and bigger. Just like Harry thought Winnie was happy at the zoo and made another friend, Christopher Robin, a boy who visited her and played with her when Harry could not be there.
This book teaches children to have compassion for animals and how meaningful it is to help animals when they need us the most. I enjoyed this book because it is based on a true story. I grew up watching Winnie-The-Pooh; it is a bear that most adults from my generation recognize as a wonderful childhood memory. The fact that this book gives the readers the true story about the bear that inspired Winnie-The-Pooh is incredible and brought tears to my eyes. I definitely like this book and would read it to my kids one day.
I believe that the illustrations in the book enhance the story and are appealing to children because of how colorful and cartoon like they are.
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
attention.
When I drew the images about this book I noticed that the medium has a major impact on the delivery of the message and how important it is to have an illustrator that can do a good job to make images that would make the reader feel like part of the story by making it as realistic as possible. The colors make an impression of vitality and reality that compliment the story specially because this book is based on a true story. Also, another thing that affects the message is artistic style. My drawings show lack of artistic skills so my style could be for children who are younger and do not know how to draw yet because they would find the drawings closer to what they could draw. So I think the artistic style and skill have a lot to do with the age group one is trying to approach as well as the message one is trying to deliver and how deep of a message it is. I believe hat the deeper of a message it is the less colorful or animated the book will be.