The Wolf's Footprint: with colour illustrations - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

A bad summer, and the crops didn’t grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People are searching for 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 listens to 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 goes because she doesn’t want Daw to be alone. The light fades. Their father moves away into the darkness among the trees. He doesn’t come back. And then the wolves come… 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 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. Note: This is the edition with full colour illustrations. Reviews '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)

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