The Adventures of Wojtek

I have always wanted to write something for my children. It cannot just be about reasoning, but about adventures, experiences, discussions, and sharing of feelings together in the story. Children like telling stories and drawing comics. He always begged his father to make up a good story. Dad also feels that in this creative process, he and his children can experience how a relatively complete story is conceived step by step. The story of Wojtek, the Polish bear soldier in World War II, is a favorite theme for children. In life, we have encountered or are experiencing troubles, difficulties, and even pain, large and small. By telling this story completely, we can also feel how people faced special lives and grew up during the extremely difficult war years. The child created the cover of this little book on January 18, 2021. Now that there is a cover, the father and the child decide to start telling the story in full together. The division of labor was determined, with the father writing the story and the child creating the illustrations. The father discusses with the child whether the story tends to be realistic or imaginary? The child thinks it should be more realistic. The story unfolds based on Wojtek's real experience. The experience of comrade Wojtek is narrated from the perspective of a Polish veteran. In order to make the story more vivid, characters such as the Tall Brother and Sister, Old Jack and his son, and Fat Tom are fictionalized along with the telling process. Dad collected and read a lot of information, including: the history of World War II, the history of the Polish Army, the life of General Anders, relevant records of the Battle of Monte Cassino, relevant records of Wojtek, the habits of brown bears, etc.