The Wolves of Yellowstone: A Rewilding Story - Hardcover

Barr, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 154760798X ISBN 13: 9781547607983

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

Synopsis

Discover the fascinating true story of the wolves who restored the ecosystem at Yellowstone National Park.

"[A] remarkable story." -Wall Street Journal
"Captivating, illuminating, [and] reassuring." -Booklist, starred review
"Meticulously researched [and] beautifully detailed." -Shelf Awareness, starred review

In the 1930s, the last wolves disappeared from Yellowstone National Park. Without them, elk herds overran the plains. Bears starved, rabbit families shrunk, and birds flew away to new homes. Then plants and trees started to die off, too-even the flow of rivers was affected.

Could the park be saved . . . by the wolves it had lost? After years of planning, a team of experts carefully relocated fourteen wolves from the Canadian Rockies to Yellowstone. This is the story of their homecoming.

Engaging, informative, and hopeful, The Wolves of Yellowstone, written by Catherine Barr and illustrated by award-winner Jenni Desmond, shows us that every creature plays a role in sustaining a thriving ecosystem.

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
A Bank Street College School of Education Best Book of the Year
A 2023-2024 Delaware Diamonds Elementary Title, Grades 3-5
2024 National Book Festival's Great Reads from Great Places Selection for Wyoming

About this title

About the Author

After campaigning with Greenpeace for years, Catherine Barr trained as a journalist and became an editor at the Natural History Museum. Catherine now writes non-fiction books that aim to inspire children to explore, understand and take action to protect the natural world. Catherine has now written over 35 books. Her book, Fourteen Wolves: a rewilding story was shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2022. She is a proud Patron of Reading for a local school and visits schools all over the country to run workshops inspired by the issues explored in her books.

Catherine Barr is the author of several other volumes in Libraries Unlimited's Best Books series (Best Books for Children and Best Books for Middle School and Junior High Readers).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 154760798X
• ISBN 13: 9781547607983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48