Cook, Colleen Ryckert. Werewolves In America. Rosen Publishing Group 48p $21.95 978-1-4488-5533-9 2012 ms VG-BN series: America's Supernatural
Secrets Nonfiction
The title
of this book says it all, as the author explores the various incarnations of
werewolves in these United States. Werewolves are a hot topic in YA
literature and media, so a book about werewolves couldn’t come out at a better
time. This book takes a different approach from what one usually finds for students this
age, by using examples and cases of werewolf sightings and occurrences as a
foundation for the book. After an introduction about werewolves
as the “stuff of nightmares”, the author takes each chapter as a case history of werewolves in America: “Sherman Ranch, Utah, 1994”, “Werewolves
in Wisconsin”, “The
Bray Road Beast”, and “Other Sightings around the United States”. The last chapter discusses werewolves
in popular culture, and the book concludes with a glossary, a list of sources for more information (print and web), a
bibliography,
and an index. Full-color photographs sit in amongst the
related text on pages throughout the book. Sidebars talk about related topics, such as: “How big are real wolves?” (page 22) and “Lycanthropy” (page 26).
Werewolves-United
States --Lynn Fisher
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