The Unlikely Hero
The Story of Wolf 8

Thank you Dreamscape Media for allowing me to read and review The Unlikely Hero The Story of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre and David A. Poulsen on NetGalley. Narrator: George Newbern Published: 10/01/24 Stars: 4 Where were books like this when I was a kid? Genres: Children's Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature, & S......more

After visiting Yellowstone, I fell in love with the wolves. I have read all of Rick’s adult books, but this is my first children’s book I have read by him. It follows the same straightforward language of his other writing. With just enough details to make you feel like you are there with the wolves,......more

Reading a story based on actual wolf packs in Yellowstone National Park, written in the third-person point of view of the wolves themselves, is refreshing, original and a delightful educational experience. Even better, a foremost wolf expert intersperses the wolves’ stories with sidebars loaded with......more

THis Junior Library Guild recommended title is the first of a series that recount in detail (and with excellent storytelling style) the factual lives of some of the earliest wolves moved to (and later born into) Yellowstonee Park in order to repopulate the animals that once were native to its lands.......more

The Unlikely Hero, The story of wolf 8, is a book aimed at the 9-12 age range. I was given access to the audio version and listed to it with my 7.5 yo daughter. I wasn't sure how it would go, but she was drawn in immediately by the soothing voice of narrator George Newbern. The personal reflections......more