Wild

Resumen del libro

In this beautiful picture book by Hawaiian artist 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. She is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. 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'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. Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. But will civilization get comfortable with her?

In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. Her work is awash with color, atmosphere, and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. Wild is a twenty-first-century answer to Maurice Sendak's children's classic it has the same inventiveness, groundbreaking art, and unmissable quirkiness.

Biografía del autor

(Hilo, Hawái, 1991) Graduada en bellas artes en la Arts University de Bournemouth, obtuvo el segundo Premio Macmillan de Ilustración para Libros Infantiles en 2012 y fue elegida para representar al Reino Unido en la Bienal de Bratislava en 2015. Emily Hughes ha ilustrado otros dos álbumes publicados por Libros del Zorro Rojo: Osos (2016) y Cómo hacer una casa en un árbol (2019).