Review: Wolves: agile intelligent creatures - not enemies!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
Emma Child one again invites us into the land of animals for entertaining and very information instruction about the animal kingdom, and as usual she writes with great skill and provides succinct facts and glorious photographs of her subject matter - this journey is with WOLVES.Child brings us into the natural world of the wolf, a rather ubiquitous critter that makes almost everywhere on the globe a homestead. She opens her introduction to animals that frighten most people with a consideration of their varying appearances, their anatomical aspects (strong jaws for crushing food, fast runners, their fur coats, etc), their hunting habits and howling habits (their howls can be hear a mile away), their living situations in wolf packs or lone wolves who live alone, family traits (wolves pair for life and have close family ties), the features of pups, etc.Then we are off on a survey of the various types of wolves: gray wolves of North America, Red Wolves of Florida (they can travel up to 20 miles a day searching for food), Arctic or Snow Wolves of Arctic Canada (they can live in the dark for 5 months), Indian Wolves of Asia (the precursors to domestic dogs), Himalayan Wolf (an endangered species), Ethiopian Wolf (small and also endangered) and the 34 species of animals that are related to wolves.About their habits, Child reassures us that wolves rarely come near much less attack humans. She also shares with us some very fascinating quirks about wolf behavior - interesting and fun to read. The entire book is copiously illustrated by excellent photographs of wolves in the wild. There is more information - verbally and visually - about wolves than you'll find anywhere, and Child makes the information perfect for young readers - or listeners! Grady Harp, May 14