The Way Home for Wolf

by Rachel Bright, Jim Field (Illustrator)

Overview

A touching story of an independent-minded wolf cub who finds his way home.

Wolf cub Wilf doesn't want help from anyone. Whatever it is, he can do it all by himself. But when he finds himself lost and alone in the chill of the Arctic night, Wilf discovers that sometimes we all need the helping hand of a friend.A stunningly illustrated story from the creators of the bestselling, multi-award-winning The Lion Inside and The Koala Who Could.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338592740
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	12/26/2019
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 11.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer, and animation director. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books.

His first picture book, Cats Ahoy!, won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. Since then he has illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Frog on a Log? and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit & Bear, middle-grade novels by David Baddiel, and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe On Vacation, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, UK, worked in London, and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter.

RACHEL BRIGHT is the author of Side by Side and the Love Monster series. She is also the creator of a bestselling card and gift line, the brightside. She lives on a farm by the sea in England with her family and all manner of animals. For more information, go to lookonthebrightside.co.uk.

Editorial Reviews

2019-07-28
A wolf pup gets help from other animals to find his way home.

Rhyming text, which at times falters in its cadence, tells the story of Wilf, a wolf pup separated from his pack during a blizzard. His situation worsens when the ice beneath him cracks and he plunges down into cold, Arctic waters. A narwhal saves him, and thus begins a series of fortunate events in which different animals help Wilf reunite with his pack. First a walrus, then a musk ox, an arctic fox, a goose, a moose, and finally a bear-moth help him along the way. The storytelling itself fits squarely into the well-trod home-away-home plotline, and it doesn't offer much for readers to sink their teeth into. The detailed, cartoony art would be right at home in contemporary animation for the big screen, adding visual interest in several spreads. Wilf's big, blue eyes herald his vulnerability on many spreads, but unfortunately, some nighttime scenes will be far too dark for readers' eyes, and the print is at times difficult to discern on pages where the print is blue on black.

An uneven package that may leave readers a bit cold. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews