About This Book:
A misunderstood wolf writes poems about his forest home and friends in this breathtaking picture book
Black Bear-ies
Cute black
fruit snack.
Tiny.
Shiny.
Pick some,
lick thumbs.
Cub
grub.
The Poet Wolf loves to write pithy verse in the pine forest, but his forest friends see not a poet, but a hungry wolf. That is, until they listen to his lovely poems about life in the woods and discover that behind this apex predator is a sensitive soul who prefers to eat not his furry fellow creatures, but crisp pears.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling Staff Reviewer*
Beware the Big Bad Poet
The Howdeshell’s illustrations are well done, with a soft, almost chalk like feel to them. The animals all wear various articles of clothing, and the wolf himself sports a very unthreatening blazer! There’s a lot of expression on the faces, and the animals prance across the pages with a lot of details that will make this a fun read aloud for children who like to point out all manner of items on the page.
There’s no shortage of picture books starring woodland creatures, so add this to your list of forest frolics that includes Rosen and Won’s In the Quiet, Noisy Woods, Dyckman’s Wolfie the Bunny, Kurpeil’s Lone Wolf and Ramos’ I am So Handsome.
