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Winter Shadow
Maria lives with her grandfather in a small mountain village in the snowy north. One winter morning on her way to school she spots a small grey bundle lying under a tree, half-covered in the powdery snow a wolf cub! Maria knows that she should leave the cub, but her curiosity and compassion are aroused. Will the cub still be there when she walks home?
79 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2011
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December 31, 2018
Read with Pi- a bit meandering with plot though.
February 22, 2021
Mystery love and amaizingness
January 28, 2015
This book is wonderful. That's the best word I can think of to describe it: wonderful.
Story summary: A young girl named Maria finds a wolf pup near death and nurses him back to health with the help of her grandfather. They try to return him to the wild and his mother, who is presumably in the woods looking for him, but he returns to them and becomes part of their family. Eventually, Shadow (the wolf) gets to be big enough that he needs to leave and start his own life, his own family, and he does. While Maria is sad to lose her friend, she's happy he's happy, and though she knows she'll probably never see him again, she comes to feel his presence in the world all around her.
I love that this story didn't end in tragedy, though at one point I thought it might, and moreover I love how it treated wolves. They were not big bad scary monsters; they were creatures to be treated with respect. In a world filled with wolf-haters it is refreshing to read a children's book that doesn't feed the propaganda machine.
This story was really moving and I teared up several times. Definitely recommended.
Story summary: A young girl named Maria finds a wolf pup near death and nurses him back to health with the help of her grandfather. They try to return him to the wild and his mother, who is presumably in the woods looking for him, but he returns to them and becomes part of their family. Eventually, Shadow (the wolf) gets to be big enough that he needs to leave and start his own life, his own family, and he does. While Maria is sad to lose her friend, she's happy he's happy, and though she knows she'll probably never see him again, she comes to feel his presence in the world all around her.
I love that this story didn't end in tragedy, though at one point I thought it might, and moreover I love how it treated wolves. They were not big bad scary monsters; they were creatures to be treated with respect. In a world filled with wolf-haters it is refreshing to read a children's book that doesn't feed the propaganda machine.
This story was really moving and I teared up several times. Definitely recommended.
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