Something Wild

PRAISE FOR THE STRAY:
 
“This charming tale of a family’s encounter with an amiable alien is really two parallel narratives, one told in the text and the other in the illustrations. The simple, straightforward text describes a family’s relatively ordinary experience of finding a stray and adopting it as a pet. . . . The illustrations, however, depict a more unusual story. . . . Smart page-turns and high-impact double-page spreads enhance the already clever dual narratives of a unique lost-pet story.” —Horn Book

“What the narrator never mentions—but readers can instantly see—is that the stray is a pet-size alien whose spaceship has crashed to earth. . . . [Ruttan’s] digitally enhanced charcoal and pastel drawings have heightened textures and an inner radiance that infuse the everyday settings with a lovely fairy tale quality. One can almost believe that extraterrestrial magic really can happen in the most ordinary of places.” —PW

“Fun and layered, this is an appealing story for family bedtime reads.” —Booklist