A wolf cub is born to a pack, but she doesn’t feel or act like her brothers and sisters. She is, as the title says, a little bit different. Eventually the wolf finds something else in the forest that is quite different, and a bond is formed. This lovely imagining of how wolves began their transition to domestication will capture the hearts of young wolf and dog lovers alike. The beautiful illustrations add to the dreamy quality of this envisioned tale. The text is simple enough to be understood by very young readers but the ideas are complex enough to capture the imagination of mid level elementary students as well.
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A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human
A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human combines history, paleontology, biology and medical science to paints a picture of how man and wolves co-evolve together like no other animals on Earth. The fossilized discovery, in 1997, of the prints of a boy and his dog walking through the Chauvet cave in southern France revealed carbon-dating much earlier than previously thought about the domestication of dogs from wolves. The author also details differences between wolves and dogs, what we’ve learned about how dogs think through MRI exams, how law enforcement, search/rescue and therapy dogs are trained, and more. It is a wonderful science book that is so “readable” and touching I forgot it was a “science” book. Anyone who loves reading about dogs will love this real-life dog story.