By Katherine Rundell (author)
"A new edition of one of our favourite adventures; original, beautifully written, and full of scenes and ideas that will excite and inspire young readers "
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Chosen by our Guest Editor for May 2023, Jacqueline Wilson,as one of her must-reads - "I think all her books are wonderful, but this story about dark and stormy Russian Feodora is especially exciting – and the wolves are amazing. "
Wolves, wildness and freedom are at the heart of this thrilling story. Wolf wilders are employed to reintroduce wolves unfortunate enough to be brought up as pets in rich households back into the wild, and they’re easy to spot: they’ll be missing a piece of finger, the lobe of an ear, a toe or two. Feo and her mother are wolf wilders, content deep in the forest, at least until the arrival of General Rakov and the imperial army.
Rakov treats their wolves with the same brutal contempt he shows to the peasants, and despite her reclusiveness, Feo finds herself fighting alongside her neighbours for what is right. ‘Wolves, like children, are not born to lead calm lives’ we are told and this a marvellous adventure, original, beautifully written, and full of scenes and ideas that will excite and inspire young readers.
Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves. Feodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.
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When the murderous hostility of the Russian Army threatens her very existence, Feo is left with no option but to go on the run. What follows is a story of revolution and adventure, about standing up for the things you love and fighting back. And, of course, wolves.
"‘Wolves, snow and a heroine worthy of comparison to Lyra Belacqua. It’s no mean feat to follow a novel as lauded as Rooftoppers, but Rundell has done it in great style’" The Bookseller, Children’s Special, Editor’s Choice 20th March 2015
"‘This is glorious. A haunting, fastpaced snowy adventure with another superb gutsy heroine told in Rundell’s beautiful and witty style’" A Case for Books
Katherine Rundell is a multi-million-bestselling author whose novels for children have won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Costa Children’s Book Award, among many others. Impossible Creatures was Waterstones Book of the Year 2023, and in 2024 Katherine was named the British Book Awards Author of the Year and Impossible Creatures won the Children’s Fiction Book of the Year. She is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her books for adults include Super-Infinite , winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize. Very occasionally she goes climbing across the rooftops of Oxford, late at night.
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Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplaces. Ten minutes away, in a ruined chapel, lives a pack of wolves.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed The Wolf Wilder and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
The Wolf Wilder features in the following genres: Books of the Month, Recommendations, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Adventure Stories, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Animal Stories, Festive Fiction
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The Wolf Wilder was written by Katherine Rundell and published by Bloomsbury Childrens Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The Wolf Wilder has 252 pages
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