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| Author | Margaret Barbalet |
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| Illustrator | Jane Tanner |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's picture book |
| Published | 1991 (Penguin Books) |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 30 (unpaginated) |
| ISBN | 9780670836147 |
| OCLC | 959302188 |
The Wolf is a 1991 Australian children's picture book by Margaret Barbalet and Jane Tanner. It is about a family that is terrorised by a wolf over a number of months but upon allowing it into their house realise that it means no harm.
A review in Kirkus Reviews described The Wolf as "An allegory concerning fear, with an almost painfully dark, heavy atmosphere.." [1] while a Publishers Weekly review concluded "Though this unusual book may not be for all tastes, its stark drama makes a vivid impression." [2]
The Wolf has also been reviewed by School Library Journal [3]
It won the 1992 Australian Human rights Award for Literature in Children's Fiction, [4] was shortlisted for the 1992 CBCA Early Childhood Book Award, [5] and is a 1993 AISLE Read-Aloud Books Too Good to Miss book. [6]
..the unseen wolf in this contemporary Australian moral tale takes on surreal proportions not seen in children's books since Van Allsburg's Jumanji ... Barbalet creates a web of suspense, which Tanner completes ..
