Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

what can i say!

wonderfully written. enthralling and exciting! beautiful characters. awesome series of books! you simply cannot put them down, I am on book 4 and have two more to go. i desperately want to read on but dont want the magic to end. i also have the audio versions and never tire of listening to them again and again!

read them!!!

I literally couldn't put this book down. I love it when a book transports me to a place and makes me want to be in it, living with the characters, and Wolf Brother did exactly that. Well worth a read, and buy the rest of the sequel!

this is the best and one of the only books i have ever actually got so engrossed into that i actually felt like i was there with them at a birds eye view and actually feeling the suspence of what was happening. i have rated this book a 5 star if only it went up to 10 or maybe even more this would get it i just can wait to start reading the next book in the series which is only a short way away soon all 6 books shall have a full and complete review like this one i bet that many of the people that actually read this book will get so engrosed into it to! thank you for reading.

Well, what can I say apart from the fact that this is simply the most exciting, involving, descriptive, moving and entertaining children's book ever written?! The stone age theme and the clans' beliefs are believable and intriguing, the characters are well crafted and likeable (who couldn't love that adorable little wolf cub?). There are no long, tiresome paragraphs full of rows upon rows of descriptive text (as with some other books in the genre) but there is still enough to make the story really come alive. When you read this book you won't even know you're reading a book; it's more like watching a film!

Michelle Paver has created a true masterpiece, and I highly recommend 'Wolf Brother' to anyone who loves animals and nature. Reading this book will take you on a fast-paced, action-packed rollercoaster ride of an adventure, and it will change your life forever!

I loved Wolf Brother - a must read, you can tell there is something important about Torak(not only that he can talk to wolves) but I know what it is! its an amazing book once again a must read! but I'm still counfused about the whole prophecy thing, why is it him? Its a great book. I wouldn't recomend it to lower level readers but its awesome! Read it! You must, you won't be able to put it down! Great write Michelle Paver!

I love this book because Torak and Renn are such good friends in my opinion. And Renn is very brave and I like how Renn rested a lot on Toraks back, it's getting him ready for when he is older. I love it.

I dont normaly read many books but this i just love all of micheals books.

Michelle Paver, Wolf Brother

Publisher: Orion books

ISBN: 1-84255-170-1

Genre: adventure/history/magic

Age guidance: story - some scary parts, sinister/spooky elements. Reading - fairly big writing, 233 pages, vocabulary not too advanced.

When Torak's father is slaughtered by a demon from the underworld in the form of a bear, he is left alone. In despair, he knows he must travel on after swearing an oath to his father to find the Mountain of the World Spirit. His only friend on the journey is another orphan; a wolf cub.

Sounds far-fetched? In some strange way, unlike other stories of magic, it does seem so at first. A demon in the form of a bear? A boy who befriends wolves? Yet after you have read the whole book it no longer seems far-fetched, and you realised that Michelle Paver has done a wonderful job of combining post-Ice Age Northern Europe with magic and forest-lore.

Paver based the clans (Torak is wolf clan) on the clans that actually existed six-thousand years ago, and then added a little bit of imagination to tell us what they thought, felt and believed. She says that the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, of which Wolf Brother is the first, arose from her lifelong passion for animals, anthropology, and the distant past. It was also inspired by her travels in Norway, Lapland, Iceland and the Carpathian mountains - and by an encounter with a large bear in Southern California.

Wolf Brother is a story packed with magic, detail and suspense. Michelle Paver clearly has talent for taking the reader on so many twists and turns that they could get travel sick. It is a story of friendship, bravery, nature, and sacrifice which will leave you not only wiser when it comes to forest-lore and magecraft, but also hungering for the next book - Spirit Walker - which unfortunately will not be published until 2005.