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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Wolves in the Walls (New York Times Best Illustrated Books (Awards)) (Hardcover)
by Neil Gaiman (Author), Dave Mckean (Illustrator)
HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM
* Reading level: Ages 4-8
* Hardcover: 56 pages
* Publisher: HarperCollins (August 5, 2003)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 038097827X
* ISBN-13: 978-0380978274
* Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 10.1 x 0.4 inches
Washington Post
"The illustrations are amazing. And, like every good scary story, there’s an unexpected twist at the end."
Sunday Times (London)
"Spectacular…atmospheric, sinister, scary, and funny…This is a book for cool kids who will grow up to be fearless."
Family Fun Magazine
"Gaiman, with regular collaborator Dave McKean, suffuses this sumptuous story with a night-light-worthy creepiness."
Product Description
There are sneaking,
creeping, crumpling
noises coming from
inside the walls.
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of their house—and, as everybody says, if the wolves come out of the walls, it's all over. Her family doesn't believe her. Then one day, the wolves come out.
But it's not all over. Instead, Lucy's battle with the wolves is only just beginning.
About the Author
Neil Gaiman wrote the award-winning graphic novel series The Sandman, and with Terry Pratchett, the award-winning novel Good Omens. His first book for children, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean, hasn't yet won any awards, but was one of Newsweek's Best Children's Books of 1997. Angels & Visitations, a small press story collection, was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Collection, despite not having any horror in it. Well, hardly any.
Born in England, he now makes his home in America, in a big dark house of uncertain location where he grows exotic pumpkins and accumulates computers and cats. He is currently at work turning his first novel Neverwhere into a film for Jim Henson films.
Gaiman's picture book about one little girl's prescient concern for the sanctity of her home is visually realized through collage and other multimedia images that match the sometimes dark, fantastical story, tone for tone. Lucy is the first to hear wolves in the walls of her house, but her family, each of whom seems oblivious to the ambiguity of his or her reassurances, dismisses her worries. Indeed, the wolves do emerge, and the family decamps to the garden, from which Lucy and her "pig-puppet" bravely lead the family's charge back to reclaim their house from the jam-eating, video-game-playing pack. With the rhythms of an old fairy tale (the end is a new beginning of trouble in the walls), and startling graphics that force readers to look deeply into each scene, this is a book for the twenty-first-century child: visually and emotionally sophisticated, accessible, and inspired by both literary and popular themes and imagery.
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