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''Wolves'' is a children's
picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The ima ...
written and illustrated by
Emily Gravett Emily Gravett (born 1972) is an English author and illustrator of children's literature, children's picture books. For her debut book ''Wolves (book), Wolves'' published in 2005 and ''Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears'' published three years late ...
, published by Macmillan in 2005. Her first book, it won the annual
Kate Greenaway Medal The Carnegie Medal for Illustration (until 2022 the Kate Greenaway Medal) is a British award that annually recognises "distinguished illustration in a book for children". It is conferred upon the illustrator by the Chartered Institute of Librar ...
from the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowledge managers in the United Kingdom. It was established in 20 ...
as the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the United Kingdom. It was also bronze runner-up for the
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize The Nestlé Children's Book Prize, and Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for a time, was a set of annual awards for British children's books that ran from 1985 to 2007. It was administered by BookTrust, an independent charity that promotes books and r ...
in age category 0–5 years.Nestlé Children's Book Prize
''Wolves'' features a rabbit who checks out a library book about wolves "approved by the National Carroticulum", and attentitively reads that book-within-a-book. In the U.S. it was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006 as "''Wolves'' by Emily Grrrabbit".


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* —immediately, first US edition 2005 children's books British children's books British picture books Children's fiction books Fantasy books Kate Greenaway Medal–winning works English-language children's books Children's books about rabbits and hares Children's books about wolves Children's books set in libraries {{child-picture-book-stub