Author Comments: As a second grade teacher, I was very surprised to have a man with a wolf on a leash come into my classroom. As the children stood close by, he spoke about the gentle qualities of wolves and their loving family ways. I had to rethink my ideas about wolves. I had always believed in the wolf of Red Riding Hood fame. Big, bad, and wicked. So one of my very first research projects was to examine the lives of wolves in the wild.

What Reviewers said: For those budding young naturalists who relish information on wild animals here is a treasure of a book. In short carefully worded quatrains, Winters accurately follows four wolf pups from the night of their birth through their first outing from the den. Regan’s realistic oil paintings perfectly capture the animals actions and bring their world to life. School Library Journal, 11/97.