The Healthy Wolf
Written by David Bedford
Illustrated by Mandy Stanley
David Bedford, 2002
Picture Book
With
the growing concern about the health of America’s children, I felt that this
book would be of great use in the elementary classroom. In The Healthy Wolf by David Bedford,
Wilfred the wolf loves eating unhealthy junk food, and one thing he wants to eat
more than anything is CHILDREN! However,
all the junk food and lack of exercise has put him in bad shape, so he cannot
even catch a child! The Brownbread
family, who are all very fit and healthy, finds Wilfred, and they decide to
help him be healthier. Will Wilfred change
his unhealthy habits, and will he ever catch a child? Read The Healthy Wolf to find out!
Mandy
Stanley’s illustrations were very enjoyable to look at while reading this
book. I found that she uses a pencil on
watercolor paper to draw some of her other artwork, and then she scans them
into the computer and colors them using Adobe Photoshop software. Therefore, I assume that she illustrated this
book in the same way. She employs a
cartoon artistic style, and she uses many bright colors to draw the reader’s
attention to the page. Each page has a
picture on it, and some of the pictures are doublespreads.
This
book could be used in a variety of ways in classrooms ranging from kindergarten
to second grade. Obviously, this book
could be used to teach a health lesson.
The teacher could use this book to teach the students how to live a
healthy lifestyle and the consequences of living an unhealthy lifestyle like
Wilfred. This book could also be used to
teach a compare and contrast lesson. The
teacher could ask the students to compare Wilfred’s eating and exercise habits
to those of the Brownbread family. The
students could also use their higher-order thinking skills by creating an
alternate ending to the story then drawing a picture to illustrate it. In conclusion, The Healthy Wolf by
David Bedford could be used to enhance different lessons in many ways.
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