Through a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf relates his adventures as a member of Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency, crime solvers of the Frettnin Forest, as they investigate a series of mysterious disappearances.
A bumper Little Wolf book combining Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors and Little Wolf, Forest Detective. A second bumper bindup of two Little Wolf novels, to appeal to all new fans of Little Wolf who saw him on television at Christmas. Little Wolf's Haunted Hall for Small Horrors is the third novel about this character, as he and his chums start a school for teaching tricking, treating and walking through walls. Problems occur when their star teacher -- The Ghost of Uncle Bigbad -- refuses to teach, unless they can find a brute beast who is NOT scared of him -- enter Normus Bear! In Little Wolf, Forest Detective, the chums set up Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency and set out to track the thief of Frettnin Forest, none other than Mister Twister in disguise. When Mum and Dad hear reports of their lack of success, they send the elderly bumbling detective Furlock Homes-Wolf to help them out. More mayhem ensues.
In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf relates his adventures as a member of Yelloweyes Forest Detective Agency, crime solvers of the Frettnin Forest, as they investigate a series of mysterious disappearances.
In a series of letters to his parents, Little Wolf describes his attempts to create "the scariest school in the world" and convince his ghostly Uncle Bigbad to teach a magic class.
Little Wolf gets a job at Weekly Wolf magazine dispensing advice in response to readers' letters, such as a skunk who wonders if she should change her perfume. Original.
In this new book, Julie Cross examines the intricacies of textual humor in contemporary junior literature, using the tools of literary criticism and humor theory. Cross investigates the dialectical paradoxes of humor and debunks the common belief in oppositional binaries of ‘simple’ versus ‘complex’ humor. The varied combinations of so-called high and low forms of humor within junior texts for young readers, who are at such a crucial stage of their reading and social development, provide a valuable commentary upon the culture and values of contemporary western society, making the book of considerable interest to scholars of both children’s literature and childhood studies. Cross explores the ways in which the changing content, forms and functions of the many varied combinations of humor in junior texts, including the Lemony Snickett series, reveal societal attitudes towards young children and childhood. The new compounds of seemingly paradoxical high and low forms of humor, in texts for developing readers from the 1960s onwards, reflect and contribute to contemporary society’s hesitant and uneven acceptance of the emergent paradigm of children’s rights, abilities, participation and empowerment. Cross identifies four types of potentially subversive/transgressive humor which have emerged since the 1960s which, coupled with the three main theories of humor – relief, superiority and incongruity theories – enables a long-overdue charting of developments in humor within junior texts. Cross also argues that the gradual increase in the compounding of the simple and the complex provide opportunities for young readers to play with ambiguous, complicated ideas, helping them embrace the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life.
Little Wolf, pup of Gray Wolf and White Wolf, bounds into the world and through the seasons in this new children’s picture book. Inside the safety of the den, through fields of wildflowers, and in birch shimmering in an autumn moon’s glow, Van Zyle’s paintings depict Little Wolf’s adventures through a variety of perspectives from close-up portraits to sweeping action scenes. Jonathan London’s lyrical prose imparts a wisdom to the text, endearing the reader to the pup and creating a suspenseful read-aloud.