Growing Up Wild: Wolves - Hardcover

Markle, Sandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689818866 ISBN 13: 9780689818868

Publisher: Atheneum, 2001

Synopsis

Bright, full-color photographs show real wolf cubs in their natural habitat as they explore their surroundings and learn important lessons of survival from their parents that they will need in later life as full-grown wolves.

About this title

About the Author

Sandra Markle is the author of more than four dozen nonfiction books for children. She is a former elementary science teacher who travels frequently to school systems throughout the United States.

Ms. Markle works with both students and teachers, helping them to discover the special fun of investigating science concepts and tackling problem-solving situations. She helped produce timely specials at CNN, a special series of classroom materials published by Children's Television Workshop, and columns for Parenting and Creative Classrooms magazines. Most recently she led development of Kit & Kaboodle (www.kitkaboodle.org), a program of highly interactive curriculum materials delivered via the Internet. She has traveled widely to conduct research for her books, and has transmitted journal reports from the South Pole and from an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica.

Ms. Markle's home base is in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

Gr 2-5-Through text and photos, Markle's presentation succinctly describes the birth, physical growth, and education of three gray wolf cubs during the several seasons that it takes them to mature to adulthood. The brief narrative is written in fairly simple language and is interesting enough to share with young children who may be unable to read it themselves. In covering only the basics of the animal's life cycle and habits, this title will be useful as supplemental material for reports. Excellent color photos show the canine family close up as the cubs play, hunt, nurse, and learn to contribute to life in the pack. A short glossary and pronunciation guide also serves as an index. Kay Winters's Wolf Watch (S & S, 1997), an even simpler introduction to this species, describes the cubs' first few months of life in a short, poetic text and has exceptional, realistic color paintings. Jalma Barrett's Wolf (Blackbirch, 2000) is a short, but more thorough introduction to the species on a slightly more difficult level. Michael Dahl's The Wolf (Capstone, 1997) also offers more detailed information. Neither of these latter books narrows in on one wolf pack.

Susan Scheps, Shaker Heights Public Library, OH

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Gr. 2-4. Markle offers a close-up look at wolf pups in this slender volume from the series that includes Growing Up Wild: Bears (2000). Beginning with the wolves' birth, she remarks on their habits and physical features as well as their growth, play, and learning. The text works well with the often striking full-color photos that illustrate the book. The cubs may look cuddly in some of the photos, but they're clearly carnivorous in others, and that visual candor matches Markle's scientific detachment in reporting details of wolf behavior. A good addition to this inviting series. Carolyn Phelan
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Edition details

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0689818866
• ISBN 13: 9780689818868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32