Another wolf non-fiction book for younger readers! Let's have a look.
In this book, Jen Green briefly goes over wolves as a species and introduces them to the young readers. They delve into aspects like wolf anatomy, relationship to other canines, pack structures, hunting methods, means of communication, etc.
While this book looks good (the layout is very dynamic and catches the eye immediately), the information of this book is once more very dated. It was published in 2010, and while I don't think all information that is wrong was debunked by then, the familiar "alpha-beta-omega" ranking system already was old news by then as it was debunked in 1999.
That theory aside, there's just so much wrong or dated information. Like another wolf book for kids I recently took a look at, Ethiopian/Simian wolves are listed as actual wolves here, while they're actually more closely related to jackals and (like maned wolves) aren't actual wolves despite the name. Another wrong fact was about the dire wolf, though this definitely has to do with outdated information. The book refers to dire wolves as one and a half times as big as a wolf (which was wrong even back then), but also mentions them as being closely related to wolves (something that was recently debunked after the book came out).
So while I'll give the book credit for it's dynamic presentation and the amount of information it can convey in its brief paragraphs, the amount of dated/wrong information will bog it down, unfortunately. If I were to teach children about wolves through a book, I'd give them a more recent and up-to-date book about them.
Rating: 2/5
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