The Last Wild: Book 1 (The Last Wild Trilogy)

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Für ein Kinder-/Jugendbuch eine sehr schöne Geschichte mit ein paar Längen und Ungereimtheiten, aber trotzdem kurzweilig. He ever went so far as to create other heads to demonstrate the technique, though some remained stubbornly unconvinced. Kester's adventure is one that I truly believe kids can grow up re-reading many, many times and each time - with growing life experiences - be able to relate to another character, notice another nuance, or discover another significance that could be applied to their life.

His bestselling first book for children, The Last Wild, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as numerous other awards.Below the sparkling city of Premium, deep underground, a dark wild remains: animals who believe the time is right to rise up against their human enemies.

The animal characters are wonderful and I've never wanted a stag, a wolf cub, a cockroach and a flock of pigeons to succeed at anything more in my life! While on their journey with the animals, 12-year-old Kester and Polly sleep next to each other and sometimes hold hands, but it's more companionable than romantic.

When a cockroach starts talking to him and he is able to communicate back, he thinks he has truly lost his mind. Five centuries after the last wolf in England was supposedly slain, its pocket-sized, flat-nosed, bug-eyed ancestors peer out from handbags, or squat awkwardly on bare concrete while their attached humans stand dutifully by, plastic bag in hand.

In regular demand as a speaker at schools and festivals, Piers is also a reading helper with Beanstalk, a former judge on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Patron of Reading at Heathmere School and a trustee of the Pleasance Theatre. The use of a main character who couldn't talk, couldn't express himself to other humans was so impacting. A sort of dystopian Winnie-the-Pooh, Torday's story is alternately somber, thrilling, and silly, filled with eccentric human and animal characters with distinctive voices.Together with a noble stag, a dancing mouse, a wolf cub that has trouble trusting humans, and another human child named Polly, Kester must help find a way to save the animals before it is too late. Set in a dystopian future, this book has an original and engaging story with good characters and is an ideal book to hook the class to their English learning.

An action-packed, dystopian eco-thriller with memorable characters, both animal and human, and a powerful message about the interdependence of man and nature. Grey wolves – real wolves – still roam the forests and plains of vast swathes of Europe, Asia, and North America: powerful, intelligent, social animals, hunting, living and travelling in packs made up of their own families, just as humans did before we discovered farming eleven-thousand years or so ago. This story is about a young boy who is unique, he cannot speak anymore due to a particular reason but one day his life changes and his gift is revealed, he finally speaks, only not to humans and after this his life would never be the same again. With their help, make your way through the facilities and piece together the story of how this came to be.That book eventually became The Last Wild, and I am currently writing the next installment in the story. All crops are destroyed and the surviving human population live in fenced communities eating only formula (I pictured the pink goo used in making chicken nuggets. Six years later, Kester is unable to speak and is still wondering what happened to his wonderful family. Before the story starts, government agents have massacred all the animals and are hell-bent on killing the few who've managed to survive. I'm sure we've all felt that way before, that we can't communicate properly with even those closest to us, that they're not understanding, that we're all alone.