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A review by skylacine
Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? by Huw Lewis Jones
4.0
Obviously a book for younger readers, but it still gets the job done of teaching them about wolves. It has a lot of good information it delivers in a straight-to-the-point manner and has some lovely illustrations to boot.
The only thing I think they didn't explain very well (at least in the Dutch translation) is how wolf packs work. They briefly mention stuff like dominance and use the term "alpha" but they never really make it explicitly clear how wolf packs (usually) work, with a breeding pair and pups and offspring of the past year, and possibly other (related or in rarer cases unrelated) wolves. I get that this book wants to deliver information in bite-sized chunks and a quick manner, but if I read this as a kid without prior information about these animals, I think it'd only have confused me more on how wolf packs really work, rather than making things clear to me.
The only thing I think they didn't explain very well (at least in the Dutch translation) is how wolf packs work. They briefly mention stuff like dominance and use the term "alpha" but they never really make it explicitly clear how wolf packs (usually) work, with a breeding pair and pups and offspring of the past year, and possibly other (related or in rarer cases unrelated) wolves. I get that this book wants to deliver information in bite-sized chunks and a quick manner, but if I read this as a kid without prior information about these animals, I think it'd only have confused me more on how wolf packs really work, rather than making things clear to me.