[3] Her father was E. H. Shepard, a famous illustrator of children's literature including Winnie-the-Pooh by A.
She was the illustrator for the U.S. publisher Lippincot's 1937 edition of Pigeon Post by Arthur Ransome.
Her father was initially approached to illustrate Mary Poppins, but he was too busy at the time.
Travers discovered Shepard, then 23, from her work on a Christmas card, and hired her instead.
He served in the RNVR during World War II and was lost along with all but one crew member when their ship, HMS Polyanthus, was sunk by the German submarine U-952 in the mid-Atlantic on 21 September 1943.