Wolves: A One Whole Day Book

One Whole Day

by Jim Arnosky

Children spend a day observing a family of timber wolves in this engaging picture book. Arnosky's detailed paintings capture the true nature and personalities of these fascinating creatures. The lyrical text conveys Arnosky's love and respect for wolves and encourages children to read along.

Genres: Picture Books, Animals, Nonfiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Jim Arnosky was born in New York City, NY Sept 1, 1946. He was raised in Pennsylvania. Jim graduated from high school in Philadelphia and joined the US Naval Reserves. His active duty took him to Maryland and Bremerhaven, Germany.

In 1976 Jim and his wife Deanna moved to Vermont with their two daughters where they have lived in an old farmhouse for the past 28 years. 17 of those years were spent raising sheep.

Jim is self taught in writing, art and the natural sciences. He has written and illustrated 86 books on nature subjects and has illustrated 46 other books written by various authors. He has been awarded the Christopher Medal, Orbis Pictus Honor, ALA Gordon Award, and Outstanding Science book awards from National Science Teachers Associations.

Jim loves to fish, boat, and play his guitar. In his work, he uses a Betacam SP video camcorder with a 1600 mm lens to record the wildlife he and Deanna find all across the country.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a beautiful introduction to wolves, usually portrayed as scary animals, for reading aloud to young children. This day in the lives of one pack shows them moving, always looking for food, finding a drink, and running on. Simply told with action on the pages. I love these words: “moving like one big wolfy shadow in the dimming light of day”. Arnosky shares that this is the result of a day observing wolves in a preserve in the Delaware Water Gap area of northwestern New Jersey. Tracks fill the endpapers.

[Beverly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful, realistic illustrations.

[Dolly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fascinating book. It's an illustrated look at a single day with a wolf pack. The drawings are magnificent, more emotive than photographs, while still conveying an air of realism.

The narrative is short and simple and this book would appeal to young readers as well as parents reading with them.

[Jeff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Arnosky retells the events in the day of a timber wolf pack. The illustrations are nice and the story is fairly simple. Good source of information and good for young kids with short attention spans. That said, my five-year-old enjoyed it but will sit for a little longer non-fiction.

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[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm currently fascinated with Jim Arnoskky and am reading lots of his books. This book was beautiful, but not as informative or detailed as others.

[Bree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Notes:
day in the life of wolf pack
prefer 'wolf pup diary'
pictures were beautifully done
simple story, but nothing really happens

[Sarah Threlkeld · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book describes/illustrates the various things wolves do over the course of a day. Good for a unit on wolves or wildlife.