Wolf Island - Hardcover

Godkin, Celia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1554550076 ISBN 13: 9781554550074

Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006

Synopsis

For our 40th anniversary Fitzhenry & Whiteside is issuing a newly designed edition of this classic bestseller!

Information Book of the Year

Mr. Christie's Book Award nominee

Shortlisted for 1989 Mr. Christie's Children's Book Award for illustration Children's Literature

Roundtable of Canada 1990 Information Book of the Year

With a new cover and newly designed interiors, Wolf Island is sure to be a howl! It's a vivid, full colour portrait of nature, and the fragile balance of a natural ecosystem.

Set on an island in Northern Ontario, the Wolf Island story, based on an actual event, is a moving chronicle of what happens when the highest link in a food chain is removed. The resultant population growth, food shortage, and starvation affect every member of the chain.

A family of wolves leave their island environment. Although, at first, their absence is unnoticed, nature's delicately balanced ecosystem comes undone over a period of months, and the mice, rabbits, squirrels, and even owls fight for survival. Finally, the accidental return of the wolf family to their home restores the island habitat to health.

Celia Godkin's dramatic, full colour illustrations will inspire readers of all ages. Her scientific portrait of an ecosystem and its component species will not be easily forgotten.

About this title

Book Description:

Shortlisted for 1989 Mr. Christie_s Children_s Book Award for illustration Children's Literature Roundtable of Canada 1990 Information Book of the Year

About the Author:

Celia Godkin trained as a biologist and worked as a scientific illustrator. An illustration job preparing signs for the Winnipeg Zoo led to a collaboration on the book Endangered Species: Canada's Disappearing Wildlife. Encouraged by this success Celia illustrated an ecology story she had written years earlier and showed it to her publisher. The resulting book, Wolf Island, won the Children's Literature Roundtables Best Information Book Award and led to a succession of information storybooks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1554550076
• ISBN 13: 9781554550074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32