The Wolf Effect: A Wilderness Revival Story

by Rosanne Parry (Author) Jennifer Thermes (Illustrator)

The Wolf Effect: A Wilderness Revival Story

A Voice of the Wilderness Picture Book

New York Timesbestselling author Rosanne Parry and award-winning artist Jennifer Thermes explore the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park—and the trophic cascade effect they caused—in this informative, timely, and reader-friendly picture book. Features a map and extensive backmatter, as well as humorous comic panels.

Here are the Rockies, their forests are bare. With only an echo of what once lived there.

From award-winning author Rosanne Parry and acclaimed illustrator Jennifer Thermes, The Wolf Effect is an interactive, educational, narrative nonfiction picture book chronicling the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park and the trophic cascade effect they caused. Featuring a blend of poetry, sidebars, and backmatter, as well as reader-friendly comic panels, this picture book explores wolves, food chains, habitats, animal behavior, the environment, the history of Yellowstone Park, the impact of human behavior on the natural world, and how bringing wolves back to the park ultimately rejuvenated its ecosystems.

The Wolf Effect is an accessible and rewarding picture book that will appeal to parents, librarians, environmental activists, and animal lovers of all ages. Features extensive backmatter, including a glossary, resources, an illustrated guide to the animals featured in the book, and notes from the author and artist.

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Kirkus

An illuminating account of a spectacular eco-success story.

Publishers Weekly

Working in prose, rhyming verse, panel-style art, and sweeping spreads, Parry (A Wolf Called Wander) and Thermes (A Place Called America) tell the absorbing story of what happened when wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone Park. Following introductory pages that detail the park's 1872 creation--including the way "Indigenous Americans, prospectors, trappers, and settlers were removed"--a facsimile of century-old newspaper headlines trumpet that "Yellowstone Park Is Free of Wolves." Rhyming verses jump from the subsequent disappearance of other wildlife to the 1995 reintroduction of wolf packs "to help mend the country/ Where once they did roam." In speech balloons, a coyote worried about the impact of the wolves' diet is reassured by a bear: "They're all elk, all the time." And indeed, the elk, again hunted by wolves, soon leave the streambeds, leading to regrown brush that provides food and shelter, and welcomes multiple species--the newly returned animals are pictured against broad, dramatic mountain vistas in pale blues and golds. Though the myriad storytelling forms don't always cohere, this rare work about successful environmental regeneration reveals how the reintroduction of a predator can rebalance a habitat. Human characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Extensive back matter concludes. Ages 4-8. Author's agent: Fiona Kenshole, Transatlantic Agency. Illustrator's agent: Marietta B. Zacker, Gallt & Zacker Literary. (May)

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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780062969583
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication date
May 07, 2024
Series
Voice of the Wilderness Picture Book
BISAC categories
JNF051150 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Zoology
JNF051100 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Science & Ecosystems
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF003240 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | Wolves & Coyotes
JNF025170 - Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States/General
JNF071000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Activism & Volunteering
Library of Congress categories
Ecology
Endangered species
Reintroduction
Conservation
Gray wolf
Yellowstone National Park
A Voice of the Wilderness Picture Book

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