Finding Wild

"What is wild? And where can you find it?," the narrator at the beginning of Megan Wagner Lloyd's poetic debut picture-book wonders, going on to describe a variety of qualities and experiences that belong to the wilderness. The wild can be both terrifying and soothing, it can threaten with forest

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fires and cool with soft rain. Full of rich and varied scents, sounds and feelings, the wild is all around, even when we, as city folk, don't immediately see it...

Although less of a story than a series of impressions, Finding Wild is nevertheless an engaging book, one which pairs a quiet, almost contemplative text with lovely artwork done in watercolor and colored pencil by Abigail Halpin. The theme here, of finding nature even in urban places, reminded me a bit of Peter Brown's The Curious Garden, although it was really artwork, with its lovely color palette and pleasing composition, that made the book for me. Recommended to anyone looking for beautiful picture-books exploring the themes of nature and wilderness, and the human connection to them.

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