I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. An informative kids book about how and why wolves were brought back. Excellent environment story.

What an incredible book. So informative and shows how delicate the ecosystems are and how important it is to keep the balance.

Timely book. Every time an environment changes, it's usually for the worst. Sometimes event he attempt to fix it fails miserably. In this case, reintroducing the grey wolves to Yellowstone restored the environment! This is a short book for young children that should maybe be shared in a classroom to explain the interwoveness of nature. Art work was very nice.

First, the illustrations! Gorgeous. :)

Next, I have to say that I really enjoyed how this was written for kids to understand it easily, especially since I find the real-life situation to be fascinating. It's a perfect reminder to think of the big picture rather than just one small part of things, and to understand how we are all connected in ways that aren't immediately obvious.

And exquisite picture book illustrating the beauty, majesty and importance of having wolves a part of a healthy ecosystem.

I am so glad that I requested this book from Netgalley, as I have discovered a book that I plan to buy over and over for all the children and babies in my life.

Bringing Back the Wolves - How A Predator Restored An Ecosystem is a smart, beautiful book that teaches the reader about the history of the wolf in the Yellowstone National Park. It begins in the 1800s when the wolves were hunted, explains why wolves were eventually eradicated from the park, and why they were reintroduced in 1995. It explores all the reasons the ecosystem was thrown off balance when the wolves were removed. The artwork is beautiful and moving. Some pages were things I would frame and hang on the walls in a child's bedroom!

The book is clear and concise and eloquent. There is a great deal of information here and I think that children (and adults) would learn more with each reread. Many pages have little boxes with lots of factual information including charts and graphs. Some pages are filled with text and others are fully covered in art. The book should probably be read from cover to cover on first reading, but I can see kids sitting down and studying particular sections learning to use the glossary.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I love how the illustrations work to support the information presented. Readers will learn a lot about the life cycle and how one species can impact it. I will be sharing it with teachers in grades 3-5 as well as my book selection committee.

For those who like the Ted Talk "How Wolves Change Rivers" this is a nice reading companion, especially if you have children who don't want to sit through a talk.

The book gives a nice introduction as to what the problem was before exploring the character of the wolf and its pack. From there the reader is taken on an individual or group collective exploration of the various effects of the reintroduction whether it is on specific animals, plants or even the audio experience of Yellowstone.

The illustrations themselves were a bit cartoonish for the animals but otherwise they were brightly colored and detailed. Quite a wonderful addition to the book itself, especially with the various webs to emphasize the relationships.

All in all a great little book that will help readers to understand the strength of relationships in nature, cause and effect and just how necessary each species is. A must-read for those who like nature and/or are wanting to visit Yellowstone.

***I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review***

The wolves are back in Yellowstone! But, what does that mean for the land and animals still there? Reintroducing the gray wolf set off a chain reaction throughout the park. This book explains in child-appropriate vocabulary and depth the very real effects this had on the land and its communities.

For those who love wolves, nature, and/ or are learning about food webs this book is a great resource. It is well researched and presented in appealing illustrations. Younger kids will love the art, older elementary to middle school will understand the connections and the science.

Highly recommend it!

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Bringing Back the Wolves: How a Predator Restored an Ecosystem by Jude Isabella is just gorgeous. The illustrations are magical - the color and texture really capture each wildlife scene so well, you feel like you're there. They were so captivating. The text is in depth, so although it's a picture book, it's not a quick read. For younger kids, taking two pages at a time would be enough to engross them in the images while learning a little something. It's so full of wonderful and important information that I feel like I could get lost in it forever! So many great facts and resources, too!
I definitely plan on buying this one for my son's nature non-fiction bookshelf.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

There is certainly no shortage of books about endangered animals or efforts to restore populations. This one stands out from the crowd because it gives us the whole picture. We see first how the wolf population was destroyed and the effect that had on the entire park. We see how losing a key species nearly destroyed the ecosystem. Then, with their reintroduction, Isabella walks us step by step through how the wolves affected various animals and plants. This book functions as a palpable object lesson in the food chain and keystone species. A very cool, very easily understood book.

This book was so fascinating to see how much of an impact wolves have on the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park. I learned so much more about niches than I could have from a textbook, and I think this would be a great read for any student.

This is a beautifully illustrated book about the impact the wolves of Yellowstone have had on the ecosystem there. Each page talks about how different animals and plants were affected when the wolves were slaughtered and then how that changed when they were reintroduced. It's very similar to a book Jean Craighead George did a few years ago.

I loved this book! It was fascinating to see how much the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park had been changed by the elimination of wolves, and what has been restored because the wolves have returned. I hadn't known that eliminating a predator could affect the kinds of trees that grow! Seeing the change across time was sobering.

Gorgeous illustrations fill every page of this book. A hopeful anthem for the future of us all, share it with a child you love.

Thanks to NetGalley and Kids Can Press for the early digital copy.

Isabella's Bringing Back the Wolves is a middle-grade nonfiction book about the importance of conservation. It is the tale of an unintended effects of the early American government offering bounties on predator species. This resulted in wolves disappearing from what is now Yellowstone National Park. It covers the chain reaction caused by the absence of this important keystone species, and the project that reintroduced wolves back into the park. My cubs and I read this together and enjoyed it. It is very informative, without being too complicated for younger readers. The artwork is quite lovely as well. Highly recommended for any child interested in nature and animals!

***Many thanks to the Netgalley & Kids Can Press for providing an egalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

A good comprehensive guide to the reintroduction of wolf packs at Yellowstone National Park. The art was really lovely and the text was understandable enough for a third grade level and above. Well done book to teach kids about ecosystems and this particular incident.

The wolf population in Yellowstone National Park was decimated by hunting to the extent that by the 1920 there were no more wolves. As the years went on, scientists started to observe changes in the ecosystem. The wolves were re-introduced in the mid 1990s, and since then scientists have been noting their affect on the ecosystem, which had gotten seriously out of balance. This book looks at all the various other organisms whose populations were affected by their return to the park and explores the complexity of ecosystems and food webs.

I had thought this would be like Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Grey Wolf by Stephen R. Swinburne only more updated (that one was written over 20 years ago). It really isn’t, though. This solely focuses on looking at how taking out an apex predator impacts an ecosystem and how the scenario in Yellowstone taught these things to scientists through the observations they made about many other organisms and their populations before and after the wolves returned. If you’re curious how scientists came to the conclusion that wolves needed to be brought back or following the wolves' first days, months, and years in the park, Swinburne’s book does a great job of relating that. (And also what a hard fight it was to get it to happen at all.) I’ve been wanting an updated version of Swinburne’s book, and though this isn’t really that it does answer some of the questions about how the return of the wolves has impacted the ecosystem in a longer-term time period. I wish I had had this book and case study around when I taught my ecosystems unit in Biology. It would’ve made the food web and interconnectedness of species come alive more for students. I highly recommend it to those who are teaching or studying ecosystems. Also a great read for anyone planning to visit Yellowstone. It gives a heads up of some of the animals and plants to look for and each of their roles in the ecosystem. The illustrations are also quite stunning, making this a book you’re totally allowed to pick up just to look at the pictures too.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Bringing Back the Wolves is a beautifully illustrated all-ages book about an experiment which unfolded over some years in Yellowstone National Park. Due out 3rd March 2020 from Kids Can Press, it's 40 pages and will be available in hardcover format.

This is an accessible, science based, wonderfully illustrated story. The text by Jude Isabella is clear and concise without being dry or dull. Graphics and sidebar notes show the direct and indirect interactions of species in the park environment. The art by Kim Smith supports and enhances the story. The illustrations are detailed and appealing. Ecological concepts are highlighted in bold text and defined immediately in accessible language in context.

The book includes a good table of contents, an index and resource and links list for further reading. This would make a superlative classroom or library read as well as a great selection for a young person. I really liked this book.

Four stars.

Disclaimer: I received an e-ARC of this book by Netgalley and Kids Can Press in return for an honest review.

This is a non-fiction children's book. Despite the genre having the tendency to be a bit dry sometimes and a mere layout of facts, this was the complete opposite making it feel like a story instead. It is clear that the text has been thoroughly and meticulously researched by author Jude Isabella with sources, an index and great and helpful illustrations by Kim Smith that complemented the text. A superb introduction to difficult subjects such as biodiversity and reintroduction of species.

As a kid, I read anything nature related and this one would have been read again and again I imagine.

Great work all in all! Highly recommend. A definite 5 star read from me.

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This is beautiful! I loved the art style and it was informative without being too complicated for a young reader, I plan to share this one with my 6 year old and think she will love it. The non-fiction as narrative is something I expect her to like, because it kept it from being just blocks of dry facts and made it feel like a story. This really drives home how interconnected animals and plants are, and how important just one species can be, if lost.