White Wolf

by Henrietta Branford

"An engaging survival story told from a white wolf’s point of view. . . . Rich, realistic, and highly readable." — KIRKUS REVIEWS

A young white wolf is trapped in the world of humans, where a young boy considers him a pet, a father sees him as a safeguard against attack by native tribes, and an entire tribe believes he is a powerful figure who has come to protect them from the encroaching white men. But the wolf knows he needs to be free — that he must journey away from humans into the wild and become part of a pack, where he can sing under the stars, hunt for his dinner, and discover what it truly means to be a wolf. With startling vividness and splendid writing, Henrietta Branford takes readers into the mind of a most magnificent creature.

Genres: Fiction, Wolves, Animals

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Henrietta Branford was a British novelist for young people.
She was born in India in 1946, but was raised in the New Forest in Hampshire, England. During her short career she won the Smarties Prize in 1994 for Dimanche Diller (Harper Collins) and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 for Fire, Bed and Bone (Walker Books); she was twice shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, in 1994 and 1997. Her progress and development as a writer was watched with interest by publishers, critics and fellow writers alike.

Reviews

[Casimir Laski · Rating 4 out of 5]

While sharing the beautiful prose of Fire, Bed, & Bone, and containing a strong core narrative as it follows a young wolf captured by settlers on the Canadian frontier, Branford’s second xenofiction novel suffers somewhat from its shorter length, but nonetheless remains well worth the read for fans of either the author or animal stories in general. [7/10]

[Auntie H · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looking at the date on the back of the title page this is probably another relic from my days of selling books for Red House. My 1999 edition is published by Walker and a paperback (The isbn led me to a version with no picture and i do. like to see the cover as a memory jogger).

It doesn't look as if either son read this and I can see why. It nearly became a DNF. Glad I finished in the end. Tale of a wolf whose life appears to begin in a cage with 2 bullying dogs roaming in the yard. Wolf doesn't eat, father gets a mum and her 2 young pups and puts wolf in with them. Mum suckles, wolf survives, gets trained by son. Adventures of wolf in captivity and then free. Don't forget the raven.

Book is dedicated to tribes of Canada and the wolves so I'm assuming that the barefoot tribes are native Americans (broadest sense of Americans).

[Daisy Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my favourite book when I was about 8 years old - safe to say it has passed the test of time. For such a short book I was completely transported into the world of the wolf. The writing was simple but beautiful, not patronising like many books aimed at younger audiences. I adore this book, and Snowy.

[Sylviaanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

White Wolf by Henrietta Branford, is about a wolf named Snowy that wants to be in a pack, but is around people who own by a man named Jim and a boy named Jesse. They own a wolf because of Indians they call "barefoot people". The book is 89 pages long and the conflict is about a wolf who has been own, captured and free. In the beginning of the book Snowy is a cub owned by Jim and Jesse who considers him as a pet, but is scared of the barefoot people and Snowy as seen the barefoot people trying to trade animal skin for him because of a special event. Then when the barefoot people come on the Jim's land, Jim and Jesse try to run away taking Snowy with them. But, Jim was killed and, Jesse and Snowy were taken to the barefoot people's tribe. they tried to kill the wolf so that they could hear the death song of a wolf, but snowy ran away. After that, he found a wolf pack and was joined in. The pack leader had two (boy and girl) cubs that grow up, one named Much(boy) and the other named Not-Much(girl). Then Snowy and Not much left the pack and started their own, they had three cubs one girl two boys. Near the end, Jesse came back as a man and found Snowy. Jesse stayed a while then left and said bye. I that the was very adventurous because of all the risky things that happened in the book. Other then that it was an enjoyable fiction book to read.

[Annalisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Davvero un libro carino ^-^
Questa è la storia di Lupo Bianco: un lupo dal candido manto.
Lupo bianco viene crescuto da Jim e suo figlio Jesse. Ma la gente scalza lo vuole: attaccano la casa e i tre sono costretti a scappare. Purtroppo vengono raggiunti, Jim viene ucciso e Jesse e Lupo Bianco catturati.
La gente scalza vuole uccidere il lupo per ricevere l'immortalità, ma Jesse riesce a farlo scappare.
Lupo Bianco ormai solo vaga nei boschi, sopravvive da solo finché non incontra una famiglia di lupi a cui si unisce. Cacciano e vivono insieme finché non si uniscono a loro altri tre lupi: una femmina e due maschi.
Durante un inverno più duro degli altri i tre lupi vengono allontanati dal branco. I due maschi non tornano più, invece, la femmina riesce a tornare, ma viene allontanata dal capo branco.
Lupo bianco segue la lupa, con cui crea un nuovo branco e in seguito una famiglia.

[Neill Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This the life story of Snowy, a white wolf adopted by a white family, sought after by first nations people, who eventually is adopted into a wolf pack, and earns his own pack augmented by a dog from his first family and a raven. Life comes full circle for Snowy when he protects the grown-up son from his first family from first nations warriors.

[Sofia Fresia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Molto noioso, nonostante la bellissima copertina (che è l'unica ragione per cui non lo vendo né scambio).

[Faith Fishcrazy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Uses 'bitch' in the proper context.