Advertising: IPS Children’s Advance
Catalogs: IPS Children’s
Events: Author (CA and across US) and illustrator (AK) signings
Materials: Series flyer cross-marketing all four titles; flipbook
on Edelweiss
Online: Featured on www.graphicartsbooks.com and Facebook fan page;
feature on author website
Promo: Targeted International Literacy Association mailing; Ingram
E-Comm to bookstores and libraries
Publicity: Interviews with author and illustrator based on events
and timely news hooks
Reviews: Targeted features and reviews in parent/child, family,
nature, and wolf publications
Sales: Special sales marketing to wolf organizations, National Park
Service, MN, AK, CA, OR, etc.
Tradeshows: PNBA, MPIBA
Jonathan London has written more than one hundred picture books for children, many of them about wildlife. He has sold more than 5 million books and is known in particular for his Froggy series. He lives with his wife in northern California. www.jonathan-london.net
Jon Van Zyle’s art has garnered him numerous honors. His prints, posters, and lithographs are prized by collectors. He lives in Eagle River, Alaska. www.jonvanzyle.com
AMERICAN BOOKSELLER Pick of the Lists: "With sparse, poetic text a
drama unfolds of Gray Wolf who is wandering alone on a winter's
night after losing his mate to a hunter's steel trap. There is
suspense as Gray Wolf encounters a wolf pack where many pairs of
eyes gleam at him through the darkness. Will he be accepted into
the pack? The illustrations by one of Alaska's premier wildlife
artists portray the vastness and the beauty of the wolf's domain.
The back of the book lists a number of organizations that are
working towards protecting the wolf and reintroducing it into
native habitats."
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: "In poetic prose as spare as the Northern
setting it portrays, a crucial moment in the life of a wolf who has
lost his mate to man is described. Gray Wolf hunts on a moonlit
winter night until suddenly his senses alert him to the presence of
a strange pack. White Wolf steps out, the two animals meet,
circling each other, leaving together, and eventually become the
leaders of a new pack. The strength of this story is in its art.
The moon is a powerful presence, washing over the snow, lighting
the wolves' eyes with intensity, highlighting their bristling fur,
offering shadows of the pack that never steps into its light. Van
Zyle's brushstrokes are rich with texture, drawing readers into the
environment and the story. A map showing the animal's past and
present ranges, an extensive list of conservation organizations,
and an excellent author's note that briefly discusses history,
behavior, and endangered status contribute to the authority of the
book. Superior art and minimalist text offer a more accessible and
gripping glimpse of the wolf than that found in Jim Murphy's The
Call of the Wolves".
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Gray Wolf, bereft of his mate, hunts alone in
the snow-bright night, unknowingly infringing on another pack's
territory. "His eyes burn like steady flames. The leader of the
pack stares back. Their eyes lock. The moon burns a hole in the
night." Returning to the ambience of The Owl Who Became the Moon,
London recreates this single moment—frozen in time, saturated with
tension and possibility. And the power of this moment generates a
story. Words pour out, as fierce as the arctic cold or as luminous
as the yellow moon (a wolf "floats over the snow . . . flowing like
water"), evoking genuine feeling without humanizing animals, and
portraying nature without being teacherly. In his full-spread
watercolors, Van Zyle—an Iditarod racer who keeps a team of
Siberian huskies (close descendants of the wolf)—depicts the arctic
night and its wolves with uncommon intimacy and ease."
BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW): "On a cold, northern night, the "wild,
untamed music" of Gray Wolf's howling can be heard bouncing off the
moon. Having recently "lost his mate to a man's steel trap," Gray
Wolf is alone and restless as he hunts his snow-covered territory.
But when he encounters a wolf pack, a young white wolf steps forth
to go with him and be his mate, and he is alone no more. Beginning
with the dramatic close-up Gray Wolf looking outward from the dust
jacket, noted wildlife artist Van Zyle lures the reader into the
wolf's moonlit world in a series of double-page paintings. An
effective counterpoint to these powerful images, London's narration
is spare and crisply poetic. Together, the two have created a
potent vision of a winter interlude as seen through the eyes of
Gray Wolf. Imbued with an obvious passion for this majestic
endangered animal, the book concludes with a list of organizations
working to preserve the wolf and a note from the author appealing
for the reader's concern and efforts on behalf of the wolf."
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