![]() Wild is a twenty-first-century answer to Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic- it has the same inventiveness, groundbreaking art, and unmissable quirkiness. Her work is awash with color, atmosphere, and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. ![]() In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth. In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. You cannot tame something so happily wild. But will civilization get comfortable with her? She is taught to talk by bird, to eat by bear and to play by fox. Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. No one remembered how she came to the woods, but all knew it was right. ![]() She’s puzzled by their behavior and their insistence on living in these strange concrete structures: there’s no green here, no animals, no trees, no rivers. That is, until she is snared by some very strange animals that look oddly like her, but they don’t talk right, eat right, or play correctly. She is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth-she was taught to talk by birds, to eat by bears, and to play by foxes. “You cannot tame something so happily wild.” ![]()
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