The Woke Wolf

The world is changing. Little Red Riding Hood grew up in a new society where to be woke is star quality. She tries to resist but the wolf of woke is watching her unrelentlessly, watching her every move. She finally confronts the wolf and a ripple of hope becomes an avalanche of common sense. Freedom of speech once again prevails coated with determination to turn the other cheek, just smile and walk away. No longer would her attempts to change things be like nailing jelly to the ceiling. The woke cancer was well and truly cancelled.

Aaron has run away from his foster home and is running away from a group of men, from whom he stole a wallet. He runs into a forest where he is bitten by a large animal. The boy is found by a writer who takes him home and the story unfolds

This book delves into the corporate takeover of public morality, or ‘woke capitalism’. Discussing the political causes that it has adopted, and the social causes that it has not, it argues that this extension of capitalism has negative implications for democracy’s future.

Meg Wilkinson, Canada's first woman veterinarian, leaves her Halifax practice after a tragedy in her private life and heads to Yukon Territory, drawn by the sled dogs she has come to admire. When she arrives in Dawson City in 1897, the exciting and tumultuous gold rush is just getting underway.

The Wolf Chronicles Part 1 The Spirit of a Wolf. England, 1645 begins the last stand of the wolves with the birth of a new leader. The battle for supremacy in the spirit world between wolf and man escalates. Veka leads his pack against the violent onslaught from the human forces on earth. His only backing, the supreme command of the wolf forces in the heavens. Human history becomes interwoven with the wolves efforts to stem the tide against the genocide of the wolf species. They infiltrate human society in human form, releasing their wrath against theirformidable foe on an unprecedented scale. The continuous slaughter of their kind carries on relentlessly as the human spirit forces renew their efforts to wipe the wolves out. Then a final effort by the wolves starts with a clandestine infiltration of human leadership on earth. A plan that will see the end of mankind as it is known. What starts out in the forest of England ends in violence, deceit and mayhem in the Acacia jungle of Southern Angola. Part 2. The Mamba Files. Thirty years later. The war in the heavens comes to an end in a shaky truce. An end not altogether accepted by all in the wolf camp. Veka becomes the new commander of the wolf forces and seeks the lost members of his pack amidst the violent human gang wars in the port city of Durban. Their fates mingle with that of the crime boss Ronald Raider and culminates in a bloody battle for survival on a Chinese freighter. The coming of the Omega brings the truce between the humans and the wolves to an end. This time Veka and his friends may have to fight against their own kind.

The continuing story of Andrew, now High Priest of Tegwen Island, who sets out on a journey to help bring an end to a war between men and wolves near the town of Hoddom, at the request of his old friends, the wolves Hengest and Horsa. A dark force has returned, however, and plagues his journey as well as his return to Tegwen where he must right an old error to save the Island from destruction.

For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator. Manheim has rediscovered in the original German Grimms’ editions of the tales the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. He has retained their ageless magic and mythology and restored the extraordinary vitality and wit, the acute perceptions of human strength and facility mirrored in the facets of these small gems. “The best modern translation of the complete Brothers Grimm.”--Choice

From the villainous beast of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “The Three Little Pigs,” to the nurturing wolves of Romulus and Remus and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, the wolf has long been a part of the landscape of children’s literature. Meanwhile, since the 1960s and the popularization of scientific research on these animals, children’s books have begun to feature more nuanced views. In Picturing the Wolf in Children’s Literature, Mitts-Smith analyzes visual images of the wolf in children’s books published in Western Europe and North America from 1500 to the present. In particular, she considers how wolves are depicted in and across particular works, the values and attitudes that inform these depictions, and how the concept of the wolf has changed over time. What she discovers is that illustrations and photos in works for children impart social, cultural, and scientific information not only about wolves, but also about humans and human behavior. First encountered in childhood, picture books act as a training ground where the young learn both how to decode the “symbolic” wolf across various contexts and how to make sense of “real” wolves. Mitts-Smith studies sources including myths, legends, fables, folk and fairy tales, fractured tales, fictional stories, and nonfiction, highlighting those instances in which images play a major role, including illustrated anthologies, chapbooks, picture books, and informational books. This book will be of interest to children’s literature scholars, as well as those interested in the figure of the wolf and how it has been informed over time.