Wolves - Hardcover

Gibbons, Gail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823411273 ISBN 13: 9780823411276

Publisher: Holiday House, 1994

Synopsis

Just how these long-feared animals live.

About this title

About the Author:

Gail Gibbons has published close to fifty distinguished nonfiction titles with Holiday House. According to "The Washington Post", "Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." She lives in Vermont. Her website is www.gailgibbons.com

From Booklist:

Gr. 2-4. One might ask whether there is room for yet another book about wolves. Emphatically, yes--if it is by Gibbons. Using her effective format of large color drawings and a text packed with nuggets of information, the author explores the life of the gray wolf (or timber wolf). She discusses its habitat (which has been greatly decreased over the last several centuries), appearance, hunting, diet, communication systems, social order, reproduction, and relationships with humans. Readers learn that the alpha female is the sole mother in a pack, producing as many as 14 pups. The many kinds of sounds that come from wolves' mouths are not the only means of communication--the placement of their ears and the position of their tails say a lot as well. Lively color illustrations, a mixture of watercolors, pen-and-ink, and colored chalk, follow the wolves on their northern trails throughout the year. This excellent resource for primary-grade students has additional wolf facts, myths, and legends appended. Deborah Abbott

About this edition

• Publisher: Holiday House
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0823411273
• ISBN 13: 9780823411276
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32