The Wolves in the Walls
Gaiman, Neil
From Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 23 June 1998
Quantity: 1From Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since 23 June 1998
Quantity: 1About this Item
1st ptg., square 4to picture book, illustrated boards, with Dave McKean's haunting color pictures. As new, fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Seller Inventory # 21072
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Wolves in the Walls
Publisher: HarperCollins, New York
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: McKean, Dave
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st ed.
About this title
There are sneaking,
creeping, crumpling
noises coming from
inside the walls.
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house -- and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out.
But it's not all over. Instead, Lucy's battle with the wolves is only just beginning.Up to this point, McKean's illustrations are spectacular, sinister collages awash in golden sepia tones evocative of the creepy beauty in The City of Lost Children. The wolves explode into the story in scratchy pen-and-ink, all jaws and eyes. The family flees to the cold, moonlit garden, where they ponder their future. (Her brother suggests, for example, that they escape to outer space where there's "nothing but foozles and squossucks for billions of miles.") Lucy wants to live in her own house...and she wants the pig-puppet she left behind.
Eventually she talks her family into moving back into the once-wolfish walls, where they peek out at the wolves who are watching their television and spilling popcorn on slices of toast and jam, dashing up the stairs, and wearing their clothes. When the family can't stand it anymore, they burst forth from the walls, scaring the wolves, who shout, "And when the people come out of the walls, it's all over!" The wolves flee and everything goes back to normal...until the tidy ending when Lucy hears "a noise that sounded exactly like an elephant trying not to sneeze." Adult fans of this talented pair will revel in the quirky story and its darkly gorgeous, deliciously shadowy trappings, but the young or faint of heart, beware! (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson
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