First a note on the image, as I have mentioned before, I work in a bookstore. And one of the things I love about that is the fact we have sale books. Nothing is wrong with them, they are just reduced price. That is why the sticker is on this image. The full price is $16.99.
Publishers Weekly said this book “…celebrate nature though a whimsical mediation of the idea of wildness”. And it does make you think about the wild. It shows you how nature is all around us, even in places we may not think of. Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd and illustrated by Abigail Halpin would be a nice book for a school library or local library. I can see it as a great book for a story time reading. You could, as a teacher, bring in art projects and science projects for tie-ins.
For me, the text of this book is a four and a five for the illustrations. The colors are whimsical and pop and vividly bright while, at the same time, do not overpower the text. Having grown up in a rural area, (even though I was a “town girl”) it was not (or is not) unusual to see deer, fox, wild dogs, racoons, rabbits, turkey, or bears wandering around our fields. I know there are many different types of “wild” to see. I know that the wild does like to hide. Autumn leaves or flowers poking out of cracks in sidewalks can be poetic. It shows how wild “the wild” can be. This book might help the reader find the wild around them.