Wolves are the New Peas…
Categories: Children's Books
In a previous post, I wrote about the recent onslaught of fabulously funny picture books featuring peas. As we stand on the cusp on 2009, I am prepared to make a bold prediction: Wolves are the new peas!
Forget the big bad wolf from the Three Little Pigs, don’t even mention that meanie from Little Red Riding Hood. This new breed of wolves is kinder, gentler- and hilarious.
Check out these recent additions to our collection.
Footprints in the Snow by Mei Matsuoka
With one story after the next describing wolves as nothing but hungry, angry, and vicious animals, Wolf decides to set the record straight by writing his own creative story about a kindhearted wolf in the hopes that it will change their bad reputation once and for all!
When Winston the Wolf's book-eating habits get him banned from the library, Rosie teaches him how to devour books with his eyes, which makes them taste even better, in a hilarious takeoff on the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Let’s Play in the Forest While the Wolf is not Around by Claudia Rueda
In this adaptation of the traditional French and Latin American song, animals play in the forest while a scary wolf slowly dresses and becomes hungrier and hungrier.
Trying to avoid the hungry Wolf, Duck, Bunny, Moose, and others head to the safety of the forest to play their games until the Wolf shows up and lets it be known that all he wants for breakfast is a plate of tasty pancakes!
The Big Bad Wolf and Me by Delphine Perret
When the Big Bad Wolf is mistaken for a dog because he is so wimpy, a little boy takes pity on him and brings him home to teach him to be scary again.
Wolves by Emily Gravitt
When a young rabbit checks out a library book about wolves, he learns much more about their behavior than he wanted to know, in a dramatic and witty story with two surprise endings.
The Wolf’s Story: What Really Happened to Little Red Riding Hood by Toby Forward
Feeling that all the facts have not been clearly presented, the Wolf from the classic tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" tells his version of events the day a little girl interrupted his happy life when he was doing nothing but working diligently at the house of a kind, old lady.
Mind Your Manners, B.B. Wolf by Judy Sierra
When B.B. Wolf, who now lives in the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to the library for a storybook tea, he is careful to follow the advice of his crocodile friend and impresses everyone with how polite he can be.
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I was delighted to find my friend Winston on this list. Why? Because I am the author of WINSTON THE BOOK WOLF! I thought that your readers might like to know how this book came to be. I had decided to write a book about a good wolf, a wolf who would break the “bad” image. (A number of writers had the same idea. Odd how that happens! We don’t copy each other, you know. It just happens.) With this plan in mind, waiting for the plot idea, I heard about a deranged man who went to our local bookstore and quietly, secretly creased the pages of expensive books, first one and then another. It struck me that he had destroyed those books, as surely as if he had eaten them. The waiting Wolf in my mind winked, and a brand new story was born: WINSTON THE BOOK WOLF. Keep reading, everyone! Words are delicious especially when you eat them with your eyes. Marni McGee