6/10/2023 0 Comments Finding winnie by lindsay mattick![]() ![]() ![]() On an immediate level, it hit number one on The New York Times Best Sellers List a week later. ![]() What kind of significance does winning this award have on you? I think that when you win that kind of award it instantly puts your book on a classics list and it means that our youngest audience, which is kids, is going to grow up with this as one of the stories that they know. A big part on why I wanted to write this book in the first place was I really wanted the story, which not that many people know, to be known. ![]() There are how many picture books in the whole U.S., and to have my book selected for Sophie’s amazing work was awesome. My illustrator, Sophie Blackall, won the award but obviously she won it for my book so I felt pretty amazing, it was incredible. She recently won the prestigious Caldecott Medal for her book Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear, inspired by the story of her grandfather, Harry Colebourn, the Canadian soldier and veterinarian who bought a cub from a trapper in White River, Ont., in 1914 and named her Winnie after his hometown Winnipeg. She is the Creative Director and a Partner at Pomp & Circumstance. Lindsay Mattick, School of Journalism '03, is an award-winning author and public relations professional. Interview by Christiane Beya (School of Journalism '18) ![]()
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