The Wolfhound

Franklin, Kristine L.

ISBN 10: 0688136753 ISBN 13: 9780688136758

Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1996

Synopsis

Pavel's love for his new friend, a wolfhound, causes him to risk getting into serious trouble with the law in Tsarist Russia when he decides to keep the wolfhound as his own, simply refusing to send it out into the cold to die.

About this title

About the Author:

Kris Waldherr has written and illustrated a number of well-received picture books for children and adults, including The Book Of Goddesses, which was an American Booksellers Association Pick of the List and a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and Persephone And The Pomegranate. She also illustrated The Wolfhound by Kristine L. Franklin. In addition to being a fine artist, an illustrator, and an author, Kris has worked as a children's book designer and has made recent forays into the digital and decorative arts.

Kris Waldherr was born in West Haverstraw, New York, and earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she now makes her home with her husband, anthropolgist Thomas Ross Miller.

From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3. Pavel discovers a dog half frozen in the snow and saves its life. When he shows it to his father, he learns that it is a wolfhound, a breed kept only by nobles, dukes, and the Tsar himself. The boy's father fears that they will be accused of stealing the animal and plans to drive it away at night to live or die. Hoping the wolfhound will find its way home, Pavel leads it into the Tsar's forest. A pack of wolves approaches, and as the dog chases them off, the Tsar arrives. He thanks Pavel for saving Tatiana and sends him home to tell the tale. But no one believes a word of it until the spring, when a royal messenger delivers a gift from Tatiana?a puppy. The text is clear, if not compelling. The full- and double-page illustrations, done in watercolor and oil paints and surrounded by scrolling tapestry borders, are rendered in a manner evocative of Tsarist Russia. Unfortunately, the artist's depiction of the characters' anatomy is awkward. The bright white background on which the text is presented often distracts from the illustrations' more muted tones. This is a story for dog lovers to read along with Joanna Cole's My Puppy Is Born (Morrow, 1991), Tres Seymour's Pole Dog (Orchard, 1993), and Debra Keller's The Trouble with Mister (Chronicle, 1995).?Susan M. Moore, Louisville Free Public Library, KY
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About this edition

• Publisher: Lothrop Lee & Shepard
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0688136753
• ISBN 13: 9780688136758
• Binding: Library Binding
• Illustrator: Waldherr Kris