Channeling Mowgli?: Wild Child by Steven Salerno
THE JUNGLE CAN BE A SCARY PLACE.
BUT THEN A NEW KIND OF CREATURE ARRIVED.
IT WASN'T THE BIGGEST OR STRONGEST.
IT DIDN'T HAVE SHARP TEETH OR CLAWS.
IN FACT IT WAS QUITE SMALL, WITH ONLY TWO TINY TEETH.
But... the Wild Child is the terror of the tropics!
It pinches and pulls. It hits and howls. It kicks and cries.
It BITES.
What to do with this little two-legs? The animals of the jungle do what they know works for them. The giraffe offers lunch--a bunch of fresh leaves from the top of the tree. The Wild Child spits them out. The Elephant gives the Wild Child a cool shower. The Wild Child wails. The Anteater shows him a juicy anthill, Hippo tries a mud bath, and Lion warms up his loudest roar.
THE WILD CHILD JUST GOT WILDER.
Then Gorilla gives it a try. She feeds it a banana. She wipes off the mud. And then she sat quietly with the Wild Child snuggled in her lap.
THE WILD CHILD STOPPED HOWLING."
THEN IT TOOK A NAP.
THE WILD CHILD WAS NOW A MILD CHILD.
Steven Salerno's Wild Child
"A two-toothed toddler needs no wolf suit to be wildest thing of all in this high-volume prequel to a certain well-known classic," says Kirkus Reviews in a tip of the hat to the master, Maurice Sendak in his Where the Wild Things Are.
Labels: Babies--Fiction, Jungle--Fiction (Grades Preschool-3)
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