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The Wolves in the Walls: Dave McKean, Neil Gaiman

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Then one day, the wolves come out, evicting Lucy and her family to live at the bottom of the garden.

But it’s the wolves themselves – with their glinting eyes and piercing howls – that make the strongest impression. Lucy’s family start out as merely background noise: we hear Mum singing, Dad playing the tuba (terribly), and Lucy’s brother bashing away at his games console.The repetition of things in threes—a classic fairy tale device—the lurking threats, the playfulness of words all pull you along in this story that is full of fun twists and surprises. The eye looking through the wall suggests a truth in what Lucy has been saying all along and shows the reader there is something in the walls even though her brother says otherwise. They seem to be some kind of digital fusion of photographic and painted elements that create a sort of collage effect I've not really seen before. Wolves are shown to be sneaky, mischievous and are personified in the story to be like humans and have points when they are depicted as funny and charming.

Many Hamilton units come with interactive Grammar Presentations integrated into the overall teaching and textual context. A self-confessed “feral kid who was raised in libraries”, Author of the Month Neil Gaiman, spent much of his childhood devouring the books of J. The concept of lies really intrigues children, since they face making daily decisions based on what is “right” and “wrong” for themselves and others. McKean uses a combination of collage, photography, painting and drawing, with a palette of deep reds and browns, to set the scene for this frightening tale.

In contrast, many other philosophers take the position that this obligation, to tell the truth, can be overridden in certain situations. This is a challenging text, as it covers the issue of nightmares but it really engages the boys in my class. Or perhaps that should be a sheet of wallpaper’s breadth: in ‘The Wolves in the Walls’, young heroine Lucy does indeed hear howling and scratching coming from within her walls– something her parents dismiss, but not before ominously declaring ‘when the wolves come out or the walls, then it’s all over’.

As Lucy questions whether or not to tell her family about the elephants, she talks to her pig-puppet. I had a teacher in high school who, whenever someone would say something to the effect of “well they say that…”, would ask “who is ‘they’?The characters—at least in the part of the relatives—are reminiscent of the people in The Day I Swapped my Dad with Two Goldfish. It is pure imagination expressed in picture book form, being both whimsical and frightening and written in a way that feels like an old fairy tale you think you should already know.

Throughout this book, the overarching philosophical issue is the conflict between belief and knowledge, and how we as human beings come to accept certain ‘truths’ as reality.When the wolves finally burst through the walls, they rip through the screens with a Stephen King-like viciousness. She believes that wolves live in the walls and talks about it to her mother (who fills jars with homemade jam), her father (who plays the tuba), her younger brother (who plays video games). The next evening, the family is still hesitant to enter the house, but Lucy invites everyone to go and spend the night there by walking inside the walls. Lucy is the first to go back into the house and save her pig-puppet, while the rest of her family is too afraid of the wolves. Additionally, do things need to have minds, be able to walk, talk, move, eat, and sleep to be alive?

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