I probably read at least half the book in text format. Christina Moore does a fine job of the audio, although I did find the pace a bit slow. The illustrations by Wendell Minor add a nice touch and support the scenes I had imagined from reading George’s descriptions. And there is a possible romance that adds yet another element to consider in her decision-making.The push/pull of old vs new, of childhood vs adulthood, of nature vs business form the central conflicts in the story. Julie also faces a personal decision: to leave for more education to secure her future, or to stay and protect her wolf pack. Her father flies a plane, uses a snowmobile more often than his sled and dogs, and manages the village’s industry – a tiny herd of musk ox. And she is taken aback to find that village life is very different from what she had remembered. She has a new stepmother, a red-haired Minnesotan named Ellen, whom she does not want to like. Julie of the Wolves The thrilling Newbery Medal-winning classic about a girl lost on the Alaskan tundra and how she survives with the help of a wolf pack.
She’s also a young woman trying to find her place in the community after her year-long experience among the artic wolf pack she came to know as her family. Strong in body and mind, intelligent, resourceful, determined and loving. I probably read at least half the book in text format.Book on CD performed by Christina Moore.Book two of the Julie of the Wolves series, has our heroine returning to her father’s home and trying to reconcile the traditional Eskimo ways with the newer structure of village corporations, industry and working with the white man. The illustrations by Wendell Minor add a nice touch and support the scenes I had imagined from reading George’s descriptions.Ĭhristina Moore does a fine job of the audio, although I did find the pace a bit slow. The push/pull of old vs new, of childhood vs adulthood, of nature vs business form the central conflicts in the story. And there is a possible romance that adds yet another element to consider in her decision-making. She has a new stepmother, a red-haired Minnesotan named Ellen, whom she does not want to like.
Book two of the Julie of the Wolves series, has our heroine returning to her father’s home and trying to reconcile the traditional Eskimo ways with the newer structure of village corporations, industry and working with the white man.
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