Little Wise Wolf

by Gijs van der Hammen

Other authorsLaura Watkinson (Translator), Gijs van der Hammen (Author), Hanneke Siemensma (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2020

Status

Available

Collection

Publication

Kids Can Press (2020), Edition: Illustrated, 34 pages

Description

"Little Wise Wolf is very wise. He loves reading books and soaking up all the knowledge embodied within them. One day, Little Wise Wolf is called on to use his impressive wisdom to help the ailing king. But on his way to the palace, he slowly realizes he may not be as wise as he thinks he is, and that the world is much bigger than that contained within his books."--

User reviews

LibraryThing member villemezbrown
An introverted wolf is dragged out of his pleasant life of reading books and studying astronomy and botany and forced to learn about friendship, community, responsibility, and sharing. In other words, dragged into hell.

I could almost concede the point of the story, until the final line when the
Show More
author tells us that somehow the wolf is able to incorporate a new active social life while reading as many or more books and discovering as many or more plants and stars. I can only infer that the wolf rarely sleeps because it now has an intense cocaine habit . . . and that is just not appropriate in a children's book.
Show Less

Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2017

Physical description

11.8 inches

ISBN

1525305492 / 9781525305498

Barcode

318
Page: 0.5842 seconds