Lobos A Wolf Family Returns to the Wild

by Peterson, Brenda; Musselman, Annie Marie

• ISBN13: 9781632170842
• ISBN10: 1632170841
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-08-21
• Publisher: Little Bigfoot

Summary

This is a hopeful conservation story about an endangered family of Mexican gray wolves who live in a sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest and their journey that leads to their successful release to the wild in Mexico.

This nonfiction story, illustrated with color photography, follows the lives of a Mexican gray wolf family, known as lobos, with pups born at a sanctuary in Washington State near Mount Rainier, to their release into the wild in Mexico. Through this hopeful and engaging story of conservation, kids learn about wolves--their characteristics and behavior--and the challenge of reintroducing an endangered species to the wild.

Author Biography

BRENDA PETERSON, a novelist, memoirist, and nature writer, is the author of 17 books including Living by Water, I Want to Be Left Behind, and Your Life is a Book. She has written about wolves for the Huffington Post.

ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN is a fine-art photographer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Audubon, the Wall Street Journal, Orion, the New York Times, and Outside, among other publications.