The crude, ugly caricature of a wolf-child that the author presents here is a hideous calumny with the potential to cause severe emotional damage to Davids throughout the land.Ĥ. And what is it with the kid's teeth anyway? Even feral children deserve a little time with the orthodontist. Is it not remarkable that there are no other children evident anywhere in this vicious little vignette of cruelty and persecution? Why is this? Well, obviously because Jason, Ethan, Becky and the gang are all hanging out at Jason's crib, watching 'Bob the Builder' and scarfing down marshmallow 'n ketchup pizza, because Jason's mom is like totally cool, and a future MILF to boot.ģ. Instead of being taught to embrace life in all its infinite variety, the feral, razor-toothed, wolf-child is subjected to a constant stream of negativity and denial from an obviously sadistic disembodied 'authority figure'.Ģ. The book's message is uniformly nihilistic throughout. But until now, one perspective has been conspicuously absent. I understand that it's pure catnip to Jasons, Ethans and Rebeccas throughout the land. I've read other people's reviews of this book.

David Shannon lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Heidi, and their dog, Fergus. In 1996, he also Illustrated Audrey Wood's The Bunyans, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ABC Children's Bookseller' Choice award Winner.

He has written and illustrated numerous popular books for children, including How Georgie Saved Baseball, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book The Amazing Christmas Extravaganza, an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists: and most recently A Bad Case of Stripes, a selection of the Junior Library Guild.

He chewed with his mouth open (and full of food), he jumped on the furniture, and he broke his mother's vase! As a result, all David ever heard his mother say was 'No, David!', and this is his story.ĭavid Shannon grew up in Spokane, Washington. Here's the semi-autobiographical story of writer and artist David Shannon, the once little kid who broke all his mother's rules. And a picture of David doing things he was not supposed to do. When David Shannon was five years old, he wrote and illustrated his first book.

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