You cannot tame something so happily wild.

In this beautiful picture book by Hawaiian artist Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birthshe 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 dont talk right, eat right, or play correctly. Shes puzzled by their behavior and their insistence on living in these strange concrete structures: theres no green here, no animals, no trees, no rivers. Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. But will civilization get comfortable with her?

32 pages

Hardcover book

Intended for ages 3-7 years