Sunday, 24 April 2016

The Leader of the Pack by Larry Honner

I read this April 2016 because I bought it for the Mackintosh designed binding and it was a Blackies book.
It's a children's book written around 1910- 1930 ish.  It's abot a wolf cub whose mother is killed by wolf hunters and siblings taken away.  The cub befriends other forest animals and is taken under the wing of a lone wolf who turns out to be the leader of all the wolves.  It is brutal, unsentimental, tells it like it is sort of book.  I don't know if these books would ever pass muster as children's books these days, but I remember reading these no punches pulled non PC books when I was a child and enjoying them.

A good bedtime read

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