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A young female gray wolf, new to the Yellowstone territory, must struggle for survival through the long winter until she finds a mate and builds a pack of her own. Based on the true story of the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park.
As they did with their award-winningA Mother's Journey(2005), Markle and Marks bring the natural world close through the story of a single female animal—in this case, one of the grey wolves released into Yellowstone National Park in 1995. The young female chooses to live and hunt on her own for a year but eventually encounters a solitary male, with whom she mates and raises pups.The family becomes the first naturally formed pack in Yellowstone. The author manages to leave humankind out of the story; without a hint of anthropomorphism but with vivid, poetic language, she shows readers the wolves bound only by nature—"the young wolf stops, watching her prey escape / through a silver cloud of panted breath." Likewise, the illustrator's watercolorsadd drama and energy (but no gore), all the while keeping the wolves' animal nature paramount. The wolves in action are especially fine: The female pounces on the mouse in the snow; with her mate, she corners a buck. An excellent story for wolf-lovers and awelcome addition toelementary-school science shelves.(Informational picture book. 4-10)
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A young female gray wolf, new to the Yellowstone territory, must struggle for survival through the long winter until she finds a mate and builds a pack of her own. Based on the true story of the reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park.