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Wolves by Emily Gravett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

ISBN: 978-1-4169-1491-4

Annotation: This book follows the National Carroticulum. A rabbit checks out a book about wolves at the Public Burrowing Library and learns lots of facts about wolves, but doesn’t realize that she has unleashed a real honest to goodness rabbit eating wolf until it is almost too late. The picture book plays with narrative convention; there's an alternate ending, accompanied by playful interjections from the author-illustrator (who calls herself Emily Grrrabbit on the title page). 

Media: pencil

Allusion: The book builds its humor and its literally “off the page” suspense on the cultural literacy that accompanies our knowledge and descriptions of a wolf in literature and nonfiction works.

Rating: 5Q/5P

RAC 7.21.09