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Synopsis
A new edition of the enthralling original fairy-story for readers of 6 to 10, from double award winning author, Susan Price.
A bad summer, and the crops didn’t grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People search desperately for the last of the nettles and acorns.
Elka and her little brother Daw huddle under their blankets, trying to keep warm. Elka is too hungry to sleep. Awake in the dark, she overhears her parents whispering.
“I don’t want to watch them starve. Take them into the wood and leave them. Take them far in, so they won’t find their way back, and leave them.”
The next day their father takes them into the wood, to look for mushrooms. Daw goes along innocently, holding his father’s hand. Elka follows because she doesn’t want Daw to be alone.
The light fades. Their father vanishes into the darkness among the trees. He doesn’t come back.
And then come the wolves...
Where do these lost children belong – in the village with the people who left them to starve? Or, in the wood, with the wolves?
A full colour editiion of this beautiful book can be found at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolfs-Footprint-Susan-Price/dp/1540345165/REVIEWS
'No one writes this kind of dark tale better than Price... brilliantly reworks folk themes... an atmospheric and poignant story. Not a word is wasted.' Books For Keeps.
'This is a powerful piece of writing - a folk tale where difficult issues are confronted, no compromises allowed and no happy ending guaranteed. There's no escaping the anger of the little girl who decides to leave the world of her parents and remain with the pack of wolves who looked after her - nor the loneliness of the brother who pines for her at the edge of the forest. This is a classic.' Carousel.
Because of the continued demand for this book from schools and parents, it has been republished by the author, with new illustrations by Andrew Price.
Susan Price is an acclaimed, prize-winning author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1987 with Ghost Drum and the 1998 Guardian Children's Fiction Award for The Sterkarm Handshake.
She wrote her first book aged 16 and became a full time writer aged 22. She now has over twenty children's novels to her name and has been described as 'one of the best contemporary writers for children' by Susan Hill in the Daily Telegraph.
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Review
'Powerful and utterly convincing' (WOLF SISTERS) (The Guardian)
'A fine formula for page-turning horrors ... a few passages are genuinely spine-chilling' (WOLF SISTERS) (Times Educational Supplement)
'Susan Price's new collection shows her again as one of the best contemporary writers for hildren of nine and over.' (HAUNTINGS) (Susan Hill, The Telegraph)
'What counts here in every tale is the quality of the imagination and the accuracy of the telling ... What most impresses is the authority of Susan Prices's voice; exact, rich or spare when necessary; able to invoke the past without falsity and the present without effort.' (NIGHTCOMERS) (Philip Pullman, The Guardian)
'A finely tuned and excellently written collection.' (NIGHTCOMERS) (Julia Eccleshare, Highbury and Islington Express)
'An exceptionally fine book...' (THE STORY COLLECTOR) (Literary Review)
'Enthralling.' (THE STORY COLLECTOR) (The Independent on Sunday)
Convincing and beautiful...' (TELLING TALES) (The Daily Telegraph)
'An affirming, celebratory book.' (TELLING TALES) (Books for Keeps)
'No one writes this kind of dark tale better than Price ... (Books For Keeps)
Book Description
A bewitching tale of two abandoned children who join a pack of wolves by drinking from their footprints. An enthralling story for younger readers, from double award winning author, Susan Price.
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- PublisherPriceClan
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0992820499
- ISBN 13 9780992820497
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages60
- IllustratorPrice Andrew
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