Wojtek

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.

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

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