Wolves, Katts and Bone Dogs: Ideas From Folk-lore by Susan Price
The Wolf's Footprint, Susan Price Years ago, when I wrote The Wolf's Footprint, I took the children being abandoned in a forest from the beginning of Hansel and Gretel and added a pinch of Russian folklore: the idea that if you drink water from an animal's footprint, then you turn into that animal. It's always been popular in schools -- indeed Kate Stilitz turned it into a musical. You can read about that here. It continues to be my best-seller as an Indie book -- in the UK, the US, in Canada, Australia and Europe. If I knew what it was about the book that appeals so much, I'd put it into everything I write. Its popularity decided me to spend 2018 in re-publishing some of my books for the same age-group of eight to ten. Like The Wolf's Footprint, they're a mixture of original story-telling and folklore. The three I managed to get done -- with the help of my illustrator, Andrew -- are:- Odin's Monster Master Thomas Katt and T...