Childrens Animal Nonfiction

The wolf stalks the desert and our personal imaginations. discover its mysteries during this superbly written non-fiction photo book.

Majestic and fierce, proud and powerful, the wolf has consistently been a resource of fascination - and worry. It is still the most misunderstood of all creatures, often forged as our mortal enemy. actually that wolves and people are extra heavily attached than we dare to confess.

With superbly lyrical language, Smriti Prasadam-Halls explores the lightning velocity, echoing howl and kinfolk lifetime of those mysterious animals, revealing mind-blowing evidence and overturning misconceptions as she does so. natural world illustrator Jonathan Woodward brings the creatures to lifestyles with breathtaking papercut university paintings. this can be non-fiction storytelling at its very finest.

The methods of the Wolf has been counseled by way of the united kingdom Wolf Conservation Trust.

— DR. MARC BEKOFF, writer of REWILDING OUR HEARTS: development PATHWAYS OF COMPASSION AND COEXISTENCE, and writer or editor of 30 different books on animal habit and protection.

“This ebook is an amazingly specific and exact portrait of Toki's genuine lifestyles, and the traumas and tragedies she has needed to pass though. i'm hoping it's going to convey humans of every age, yet specifically younger kids, how captivity for leisure devastates genuine orca folks, with actual houses and families." 

— HOWARD GARRETT, Orca researcher and co-founder of Orca Network

Based on precise occasions, LOLITA LOVES the sea: the tale OF A WILD ORCA, bargains either childrens and adults a vibrant insightful account of the lifetime of Lolita or Toki, the second one oldest captive orca on the earth, surviving within the U.S at Miami Seaquarium, Florida. natural world researcher Gina Sequeira embarks readers on an intimate trip of the methods of untamed orcas, and onto Lolita’s psychological and actual fight as a prisoner. followed by means of dynamic illustrations from former San Francisco Academy of artwork teacher Christopher Newhard and Sequeira, Lolita’s tale could be instructed transparently with no words.

LOLITA LOVES the sea uncovers the amazing deep love between orca households, invitations us to reconsider our connection or lack thereof with cetaceans, and to extend our belief of them from outdoor the concrete box.

An broad epilogue presents extra clinical details together with the present welfare of the Southern Resident orcas (SRKWs) of the Pacific Northwest, and the guts for Whale Research’s plan for “Toki’s trip again domestic” to her 88 year-old mom, Ocean solar, the strong but mild matriarch and chief of her relatives pod.

Written for a while eight and up, Sequeira conjures up us to reflect on the query of no matter if we're aiding or harming fellow non-human animals, and to check our interactions with all animals by way of recognize, morality and compassion for the average world.