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This Wolf Was Different is the imagined beginning of wolf/human companionship and how it theoretically may have begun. The illustrations are often impressionistic and a bit blurred to make soft edges which lends the feeling of it being a folktale in an oral tradition or happening from the deep past. The series of events seems plausible that there would be a wolf not quite like its packmates and a bit friendly. It wouldn’t take a long separation for it to be willing to seek companionship with something else friendly-looking. Human children would be more curious and less cautious than adults, so the friendship beginning with a curious child and wolf makes sense. I like the curiosity this book inspires by deciding what you think may have happened in this prehistoric event. This book has the potential to inspire wonder in archeology and history.