The illustrations are wonderful, rendered in oil paint on canvas. Together author and artist successfully draw the reader into the world of the pups, transforming a landscape, at first strange and wild, into one both familiar and intimate. Children will learn about young Abe's family life, the death of his mother, his father's remarriage, and about Abe pulling corn in a friend's field for 3 days to pay him back for ruining a book he had borrowed. Thus, her palette of soft greyish browns never grows monotonous. High-contrast lighting turns rock faces into jagged, faceted shapes by day, while by moonlight, the smooth orbs of rocks in a riverbed take on an eerie glow. : Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books (9781416912682) by Winters, Kay and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The daily life of this new wolf family unfolds with evocative simplicity: ""Off to the forest,/ Father Wolf sniffs./ Wolves weave like shadows,/ Stalking a deer."" Regan's (Welcome to the Greenhouse) precise, naturalistic oil paintings make dramatic scenery of the harsh, rocky terrain that is the wolves' home. Most of the unrhyming, four-line stanzas begin with locations-""down in the den,"" ""in the tall pine,"" ""high on the hill,""-which readers come to know as the respective locales of the pups and their mother, the menacing eagle (who eyes the infants almost as intently as their parents do) and the wolf pack.
There are no big, bad wolves in Winters's (Did You See What I Saw?) verse story instead, she shows a litter of four wolf pups growing up in their natural environment.
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