Wojtek: The Bear Who Went to War - Softcover

Moulder, Bob; McCrory, Moy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913802906 ISBN 13: 9781913802905

Publisher: Markosia Enterprises Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

Wojtek: The Bear Who Went to War, by Bob Moulder and Moy McCrory, is an uplifting tale from WW2 based on the exploits of a Syrian brown bear and the Polish soldiers who adopted him as a mascot, friend and colleague.

About this title

About the Authors

Bob Moulder is a freelance illustrator who has worked for numerous publishers including Usborne Books, A&C Black & Walker Books, as well theatre companies, museums, even churches. However, from the 1980s, working for publishers like Knockabout Comics, to today, comic strips have always been a passion. In 2015 he produced a big comic strip installation, By Far the Greatest Team, for the National Football Museum, based on stories provided by fans of the two Manchester teams, City and United. A 2020 publication is another WW2 animal story, Gustav the Brave, a children's book commissioned by the D Day Story Museum in Portsmouth. He's also an instant caricaturist, working at private and corporate events.

Moy McCrory is an academic and author with an extensive publication track-record. She has had three collections of short stories published, including Those Sailing Ships of His Boyhood Dreams (Jonathan Cape, 1992), as well as a novel, The Fading Shrine, (Jonathan Cape, 1990). She has contributed to numerous short story collections and anthologies, including Femmes de Siècle: Stories from the '90s (Chatto & Windus, 1992) Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (Cork University Press, 2000), and, most recently, I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Second-Generation Irish in Britain (The Wild Geese Press, 2020), which she also co-edited

Edition details

• Publisher: Markosia Enterprises Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913802906
• ISBN 13: 9781913802905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 86