Awards

• Winner of ABC Children's Choices 1993 (United States)
• Winner of Bookbuilders West Award 1993 (United States)
• Winner of Children's Book Council Science and Nature Book Award 1993 (United States)
• Winner of LA Parent Book Award 1993 (United States)
• Winner of Mother Goose Programs (TM)/Vermont Center for the Book, the Red Clover Award Program 1993 (United States)
• Winner of NSTA (National Science Teacher's) Outstanding Children's Trade Book Award 1993 (United States)

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9781943328727

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AMERICAN BOOKSELLER Pick of the Lists: With sparse, poetic text a drama unfolds of Gray Wolf who is wandering alone on a winter's night after losing his mate to a hunter's steel trap. There is suspense as Gray Wolf encounters a wolf pack where many pairs of eyes gleam at him through the darkness. Will he be accepted into the pack? The illustrations by one of Alaska's premier wildlife artists portray the vastness and the beauty of the wolf's domain. The back of the book lists a number of organizations that are working towards protecting the wolf and reintroducing it into native habitats. </p>

AMERICAN BOOKSELLER Pick of the Lists: With sparse, poetic text a drama unfolds of Gray Wolf who is wandering alone on a winter's night after losing his mate to a hunter's steel trap. There is suspense as Gray Wolf encounters a wolf pack where many pairs of eyes gleam at him through the darkness. Will he be accepted into the pack? The illustrations by one of Alaska's premier wildlife artists portray the vastness and the beauty of the wolf's domain. The back of the book lists a number of organizations that are working towards protecting the wolf and reintroducing it into native habitats.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: Gray Wolf, bereft of his mate, hunts alone in the snow-bright night, unknowingly infringing on another pack's territory. His eyes burn like steady flames. The leader of the pack stares back. Their eyes lock. The moon burns a hole in the night. Returning to the ambience of The Owl Who Became the Moon, London recreates this single moment frozen in time, saturated with tension and possibility. And the power of this moment generates a story. Words pour out, as fierce as the arctic cold or as luminous as the yellow moon (a wolf floats over the snow . . . flowing like water ), evoking genuine feeling without humanizing animals, and portraying nature without being teacherly. In his full-spread watercolors, Van Zyle an Iditarod racer who keeps a team of Siberian huskies (close descendants of the wolf) depicts the arctic night and its wolves with uncommon intimacy and ease.

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Jonathan London has written more than one hundred picture books for children, many of them about wildlife. He has sold more than 5 million books and is known in particular for his Froggy series. He lives with his wife in northern California. www.jonathan-london.net Jon Van Zyle’s art has garnered him numerous honors. His prints, posters, and lithographs are prized by collectors. He lives in Eagle River, Alaska. www.jonvanzyle.com

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