Wild

"You cannot tame something so happily wild." In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birthshe was taught to talk by birds to eat by bears and to play by foxes. She is unashamedly irrefutably irrepressibly wild. That is until she is snared by some very strange animals that look oddly like her but they dont talk right eat right or play correctly. Shes puzzled by their behavior and their insistence on living in these strange concrete structures: theres no green here no animals no trees no rivers. Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. But will civilization get comfortable with her? In her debut picture book Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. Her work is awash with color atmosphere and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. Wild is a twenty-first-century answer to Maurice Sendaks childrens classicit has the same inventiveness groundbreaking art and unmissable quirkiness.