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Wolf (novel)
''Wolf'' is a young-adult novel by Gillian Cross, published by Oxford in 1990. Set in London, it features communal living, terrorism, and wolves (according to Library of Congress Subject Headings) and a teenage girl in relation to her mother, father, and paternal grandmother. Cross won the annual Carnegie Medal recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Coincidentally, ''The Cry of the Wolf'' by Melvin Burgess, featuring a grey wolf as the main character, was the highly commended runner up. Holiday House published the first U.S. edition in 1991. Plot summary Cassy is a teen-age girl who lives with her father's mother. Her grandmother and her mother both maintain silence about her father. One night she is awakened by mysterious footsteps. The next day, as always when the footsteps are heard, she is sent away to live with her lovely but feckless mother, Goldie, who is squatting in London. Mother, her partner, and his teenage son "make a living with inno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Cross
Gillian Cross (born 1945) is a British author of children's books. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for ''Wolf'' and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for ''The Great Elephant Chase''. She also wrote ''The Demon Headmaster'' book series, which was later turned into a television series by the BBC in January 1996; a sequel series was produced in 2019. Biography Gillian Clare Arnold was born in London on 24 December 1945 to James Eric and Joan Emma Arnold. She was educated at North London Collegiate School, Somerville College, Oxford, and the University of Sussex. She married Martin Cross in 1967, and they had four children: Jonathan, Elizabeth, Anthony, and Katherine. Cross's first published book was ''The Runaway''. Three years later she inaugurated ''The Demon Headmaster'' series of seven books (1982 to 2002). She also completed ''The Dark Behind the Curtain'', a horror story illustrated by David Parkins and published by Oxford University Press. It was highly commen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolves In Fiction
This is a list of wolves in fiction, including normal wolves and anthropomorphic wolf characters. For werewolf characters see List of werewolves. Literature Folk tale *''The Boy Who Cried Wolf'' *''The Goat and Her Three Kids'' *''Little Red Riding Hood'' *''The Three Little Pigs'' *''The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids'' *''Peter and the Wolf'' *''The Wolf and the Crane'' *''The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'' *''The Wolf and the Lamb'' Film Comics and manga Television Animation Video games Music *Ukrainian singer Ruslana's single Dance with the Wolves included a real wolf and an animated wolf and her puppies in the music videos. Animatronics *Rolfe DeWolfe, a comedic wolf from The Rock-afire Explosion at Showbiz Pizza Place. He has a ventriloquist dummy named Earl Schmerle. See also *Werewolf fiction *Wolfdog *List of wolves References ;Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolves In Fiction Fictional wolves Wolves The wolf (''Canis lupus''; plural, : wolves), also known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Gillian Cross
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
