![]() ![]() ![]() "Wild by Emily Hughes relies on its lush, almost rough art to convey a story about belonging and being different. Wild is a twenty-first-century answer to Maurice Sendak's children's classic-it has the same inventiveness, groundbreaking art, and unmissable quirkiness.īest Children's Book of 2014, Brain Pickings Her work is awash with color, atmosphere, and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. But will civilization get comfortable with her? Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. 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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