Big Wolf & Little Wolf The little leaf that wouldn't fall

Nadine Brun-Cosme

Book - 2009

When Big Wolf decides to surprise Little Wolf in the dead of winter by fetching a little leaf from an otherwise bare tree, both of them are rewarded in different ways by Big Wolf's effort.

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Genres
Picture books
Published
Brooklyn, NY : Enchanted Lion Books 2009.
Language
English
French
Main Author
Nadine Brun-Cosme (-)
Other Authors
Olivier Tallec (illustrator), Claudia Zoe Bedrick (-)
Edition
1st American ed
Item Description
Originally published as: Grand Loup et Petit Loup, La Petite feuille qui ne tombait pas. Paris : Père Castor Éditions Flammarion, 2007.
Physical Description
unpaged : col. ill. ; 31 cm
ISBN
9781592700882
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

The Mutt-and-Jeff companions introduced in Big Wolf Little Wolf (2009) return for more tender interplay. Catching sight of a particular leaf high in a tree, season by season Little Wolf repeatedly tries to persuade Big Wolf to get it. Big Wolf patiently counters that the leaf will fall on its ownbut when it doesn't even after the snows come, he gamely undertakes the risky climb. Watching anxiously from below, Little Wolf finally begins to wonder if the leaf is worth the trouble. Then the leaf shatters at a touch, and the flakes' graceful fall, as Little Wolf later tells Big Wolf, "was the most beautiful thing I ever saw." Drawn with long, bold pencil stroke, Big Wolf looms hugely over Little Wolf and would have a fierce, wild look did Tallec not add subtle cues of dress and posture to hint at his gentle nature. Fans of Virginia Miller's George and Bartholomew Bear will find in this import the same simple, warm intimacy. (Picture book. 6-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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