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turrean's review
2.0
Pretty intense picture book. This is an allegory about facing one's fears. Best suited to upper elementary.
stefhyena's review
5.0
I wouldn't use it with my early childhood students. It might be better for middle school, even though it is a picture book.
I guess it is about xenophobia, about being so fear filled for something that you don't understand that you don't speak about it and let your whole life begin to be about protecting borders and territory instead of about living.
It is about good, courageous, loving people who nevertheless let the fear of the unknown wolf blind them to transformative possibilities. At the end they see a possibility in domesticating the wolf "it becomes our dog". Is it a good thing? Is it a form of colonialism/appropriation?
The book stops there.
I guess it is about xenophobia, about being so fear filled for something that you don't understand that you don't speak about it and let your whole life begin to be about protecting borders and territory instead of about living.
It is about good, courageous, loving people who nevertheless let the fear of the unknown wolf blind them to transformative possibilities. At the end they see a possibility in domesticating the wolf "it becomes our dog". Is it a good thing? Is it a form of colonialism/appropriation?
The book stops there.
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