THE WOLVES CURRUMPAW

🇬🇧 Description:

1892, New Mexico. A wolfpack roams the Currumpaw Valley, preying on the cattle and evading capture by the exasperated local ranchmen. Due to his knowledge of wolf behaviour, a British naturalist by the name of Ernest Thompson Seton is employed to hunt down their notorious pack leader, king Lobo…

A beautiful and moving re-telling of the first short story from Ernest Thompson Seton’s 1898 classic collection, ‘Wild Animals I Have Known’, this second book from award winner William Grill takes us back to the dying days of the old west.

Reviews:

A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
ONE OF The Guardian'S BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF 2016
ONE OF THE IRISH TIMES' BEST PICTURE BOOKS OF 2016
ONE OF Paste Magazine'S BEST KIDS COMICS OF 2016
ONE OF BookTrusts “100 BEST BOOKS FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS” 

 

A powerful, cinematic work of naturalistic fiction that deftly outlines the importance of respecting nature.
~ Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

Grill has created a powerful picture book that is certain to provoke feelings of empathy for the regal Lobo and Blanca.
~ The New York Times

Breathtaking illustrated pages [...] Mr. Grill uses colored pencils and perspective pulled well back—to reveal men and animals as vanishingly small when set against the beautiful vastness of the natural world.
~ The Wall Street Journal

A magnificent large-scale picture book, The Wolves of Currumpaw gives narrative non-fiction a new dimension. […] The story is deeply moving, and Grill ends by linking Seton’s tale to the history of conservation of wildlife and its great importance today.
~ The Guardian, The Best Children's Books of 2016

William Grill brilliantly evokes a landscape inhabited by wolves in his narrative non-fiction The Wolves of Currumpaw.
—The Irish Times, The Best Picture Books of 2016