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"Box of Mixed Emotion" Dive inside Riley's mind and get to know the Emotions that star in the new film, "Inside Out". Learn more | More from Inside Out
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There lives in every child an animal. A wild, untamable creature that will emerge without fail at the worst possible moments, rendering its parents helpless and hopeless all in one swoop. There also exist in this world picture books that touch on this restrained/free duality. You might even argue that the BEST children’s books touch on this in some way ("Where the Wild Things Are” being the most obvious example). In 2013 alone we saw Peter Brown’s “Mr. Tiger Goes Wild” talk about the need in every child for order as well as wild uninhibited freedom. “Wild”, in contrast, is a simpler story. Following just one girl from her path from nature to the city and back again, it has a different lesson in mind. It is all well and good for some to find a happy medium between chaos and order but for some kids chaos is clearly MUCH more appealing!
“No one remembered how she came to the woods, but all knew it was right.” A green-haired baby smiles contentedly on a forest floor as a bear, bird, and fox look on. Over the years the bird teaches her to speak, the bear to eat, and the fox to play. Unfortunately a hunter’s trap catches the child by her foliage-like hair and a pair of baffled hunters takes her back with them to civilization. There the child is forced to reside in the home of a well-meaning psychiatrist and his wife. Attempts to normalize her fail resoundingly and at last she flees back to the wild, the family dog and cat in tow. After all, “you cannot tame something so happily wild.”
A British-born Hawaiian-residing author/illustrator, Emily Hughes’ art is fascinating to look at, partly because it’s so incredibly European. It’s something about the eyes, I think. Or maybe just the way the landscape and the animals intertwine.Read more ›
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Don’t you just love the cover of this book? I think that is why I had to read it. Inside, the text is easy to read, the illustrations are captivating but I just couldn’t feel the love. I was angry and bitter after reading this story. The whole premise of the book is that the girl is raised in the wild, for the birds taught her to sing, the bears taught her to eat, and the foxes taught her how to play. One day the humans came into the forest and found her, they took her back to civilization and tried to make her a human. Each two-page spread has a single sentence on it with a fabulous picture but it’s the adults in the book that have me shaken. The young couple who found the child in the forest was suddenly changed out in the next page, with two older adults, who from the beginning irritated me. We see the child in now in their care and on the front page of the local newspaper it states, “Famed psychiatrist takes in feral child.” The look on their faces and the lack of love and emotion is felt immediately and I am heartbroken. Their facial expressions make me want to close the book, what transpires next in the book does not surprise me. I don’t like it, why the young couple didn’t keep the child is beyond me and why the adults behaved the way they did angers me. This book is not a good one for me but I liked the illustrations and I liked the text size and fonts, which is what I based my rating on.
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My wife and I loved it. So did my one year old daughter. This book has a very unique vibe and a neat story. There's no jacket on the book. The little feral child is just perfect. She's adorable, fierce, and lovable.
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I read this book at a friend's house. It was an amazing story with awesome illustrations. I look forward to many more from this author. I can't wait to read it to my grandson.
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I loved this book so much. I read it to my own "wild" 4 year old, who was truly entranced by the pictures and story - and particularly loves the page with the crows teaching the girl to "talk." (!) The illustrations are AMAZING and the message a surprising and thought-provoking endorsement of embracing who we really are (wild side and all) rather than letting the norms of society rule us. I read it to my daughter when I was feeling particularly down about a situation at work (where they are trying to make me conform to their Corporate USA way), and it really resonated with me on a deep level and encouraged me to stay true to myself.
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SUMMARY: A baby girl showed up in the forest. The animals took her in and raised her. Bird taught here to speak and Bear taught her how to eat. She was happy. Until one day, hunters found her and brought her to a psychiatrist. The man and his wife tried to turn her into a civilized child by teaching her to speak English and good manners. The child did not understand and was not happy. One day, she went back into the wild and everyone felt this was right.
ILLUSTRATIONS: The illustrations in this book are quite stunning. They are colorful, rich, and extremely detailed. Hughes uses a large eyed style that brings life to her characters. The girl's hair is drawn in such as way that is looks like weeping willow branches. I especially love the strategically placed plant life over the little girl to keep her modesty.
THE GOOD: The beginning of the story is quite delightful. Watching the little girl frolic in the wild is fun and humorous. I love how she brings the psychiatrist's pets with her when she returns to the wild because this is where they belong. THE NOT AS GOOD: There were two aspects I was uncomfortable with when the girl was brought to the couple's home. One was the sinister look of the psychiatrist. This was frightening. The other was how the girl completely trashed every inch of their home with her wild ways. I felt this was extreme.
AGE RECOMMENDATION: Due to the more mature message (including all that being with the psychiatrist entailed) in this story line, I think it is best suited to ages 5-8
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