Good information, mostly; this 1994 edition may be somewhat out of date. Describes the different types of wolves, how they are related to dogs, how they hunt, and their life cycle. ( )

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Wolves by Gail Gibbons is a great informational, picture book which provides a decent amount of facts to young readers. The book has beautiful illustrations coinciding with the information provided. The book is mostly about the gray wolf, or timber wolf but it also provides some information about the red wolf, and all wolves that are endangered. There is no table of contents, or index, or glossary. The sentences flow easily and it's not told in a narrative format, but provided in the format of a picture book. At the end of the book there is a page titled, 'More Ways of the Wolves" where Gibbons provides facts and smaller illustrations about wolves. My favorite page is the last page that contains "Wolf Legends and Myths" which references Little Red Riding Hood, werewolves, Romulus and Remus, and The Sioux Magician. I thought this was a nice little feature and one I hadn't seen the many informational books.

I used this book to study wolves with my Kindergarten boys. We read parts of this book after reading another books on wolves first, and we used hand symbols to tell which parts of this book provided new information and which parts we could connect to the first book with. We revisited this book a second day where I was able to read the book in its entirety to the boys. They really enjoyed it and we discussed the use of illustrations versus real photographs. We also read the legends and myths page and the boys got so excited to connect with Little Red Riding Hood. ( )

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