Book Review:Little Wolf's Book of Badness by Ian Whybrow

Here's my review of the first volume of a good but underappreciated book series.

Who's afraid of Little Wolf? Nobody!(Could have something to do with the fact that he's just sooooo cute!) And this problem is one that his parents plan to remedy by sending him to his famous Uncle Bigbad's college in the Frettning Forest to learn how to be a better(or shoud we say "badder") wolf. (Didn't know there was a right and wrong way to be a wolf, but there it is.)

Along the way, Little Wolf meets his uncle's old business partner(who will become an important character in later books), runs afoul of some birds, meets a certain little girl in a red hood, and befriends a Cub Scout troop who even invite him to stay with them.

  He also has a mishap with a hedgehog.

On top of all this, one also wonders if Uncle Bigbad(who has a REALLY LOUD voice!) really can be trusted...

My thoughts:Overall, this is a good, well-written book; one of the best in the series IMHO. The format it's written in is very clever and unique; it's told from Little Wolf's perspective in a series of letters written home to his parents. (One could possibly call this a "chapter book deconstruction.")

Little Wolf's constant misspellings and coining of words(e.g. "frozz", "fedduply", "lipsmackerous", etc.) add to the humorous nature of the storyline, and Little Wolf himself is a good and interesting character who, despite his mischievous nature, comes off as quite likeable(even sympathetic). A great beginning to a great series; definetly worth a read. (BTW, Little Wolf's little brother Smellybreff and cousin Yeller who are mentioned several times in this book will join Little Wolf on his adventures in later books.)

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