The Dream of the Thylacine
CCBC Review:
“Trapped am I, in cage of twisty wire, cold concrete. Prowl Rage Howl. Know you not that I am tooth and claw—see me hunt through bracken and bush, see me swagger across wild lands, see me glory at the edge of a cliff.” A powerful book about captivity and extinction blends a spare, stream-of-conscious-like narrative imagining the voice of the last known thylacine, which died in captivity in the late 1930s, with two visual narratives. One is lush, full-page spreads of the thylacine in the wild as it dreams of its former life as part of the natural world. The other is an unsettling series of black-and-white photographic images blending blurred stills of the animal in captivity taken from a BBC documentary in 1937 with wood walls and wire fencing. A brief note provides more information on this carnivorous marsupial, also known as the Tasmanian Tiger, that is now believed to be extinct. © 2013Cooperative Children's Book Center
Illustrated by Ron Brooks
CCBC Age Recommendation: Age 9 and older
Age Range:
Grades 3-5 (Ages 8-10)
Grades 6-8 (Ages 11-13)
Grades 9-12 (Age 14 and older)
Format:
Picture book
Subjects:
Animals (Fiction)
Dreams
Environmental Challenges
Survival
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Publish Year: 2013
Pages: 32
ISBN: 9781742373836
CCBC Location: Picture Book, Wild