Wild by Emily Hughes6/2/2023 Her work is awash with color, atmosphere, and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. But will civilization get comfortable with her? In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations. Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. 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. 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 is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. “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 birth–she was taught to talk by birds, to eat by bears, and to play by foxes.
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