Description
"Gorgeous."-The New York Times * Best Books of 2022 lists: NYPL, School Library Journal, The Globe and Mail, Indigo * JLG Gold Standard Selection * Moonbeam Children's Book Award Winner * Kids Indie Next Pick
Bellwether Riggwelter is, once again, out of blackberries. This time, rather than tiptoe through a forest full of predators, he comes up with a new plan. He will keep himself safe by blending in-he will sew a Wolf Suit! The disguise works perfectly . . . sort of. Bellwether realizes he can't enjoy the forest in a bulky suit, and he may not be the only creature in the forest who feels that way. Perhaps not everyone is as wolfish as they appear.
With humor, darkness, and insight reminiscent of Jon Klassen and Edward Gorey, Sid Sharp turns the idiom "wolf in sheep's clothing" on its head.
This award-winning hilarious and touching graphic novel debut about the pressures of conformity and conquering fear by finding community is the perfect contemporary folktale to press into the hands of anyone who has felt they need to pretend to be someone else.
*lead title marketing campaign*
- Advertising in trade and institutional journals
- Advertising in Edelweiss, Netgalley
- Extensive outreach to digital reader communities
- Social media graphics, contesting, and other YA-reader outreach across Annick's social media accounts
- Halloween and spooky season marketing and publicity tie-ins
- Media pitching for reviews and coverage in consumer, institutional, and social media
- Teacher and librarian outreach, including promotion at conferences and promotion in Annick's teacher-librarian newsletter
- Contesting and promotion in Annick's newsletter
- Virtual and select in-person author events
About the Author
SID SHARP is an artist and illustrator from Toronto who makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Their main interests include folklore, scary stories, mysterious and unknowable things, and finding good sticks for their stick collection. Sid attended OCAD University and works in an antiquarian bookstore that smells really good. The Wolf Suit, Sid's first graphic novel for kids, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and was featured in Best of the Year lists by the New York Public Library, School Library Journal, and The Globe and Mail.
Reviews
"A lovely, lush allegory about the joys and terrors of trying on a new look."-Michael DeForge, Eisner Award-nominated creator of Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
"Genuinely lovely. A gorgeous palette of colours and emotions with illustrations that leap off the page."-Matthew Forsythe, creator of MINA, and Pokko and the Drum
"The gorgeous black and dark blue backgrounds, thick with night, make the opening of the curtain, and the sunlight that spills onto the last page, feel like another undressed window through which we can better see the self."-The New York Times
"A timeless message presented in an enthralling tale. Highly recommended for purchase."-School Library Journal, *starred review
"Poignant affirmation that friendships can blossom when we are brave enough to reveal our true selves."-Kirkus Reviews
Awards
Winner of Kids Indie Next Pick 2022 (United States) and Moonbeam Children's Book Award 2022 (United States). Joint winner of Best Books List, starred selection 2023 (Canada) and Best Books 2022 (United States) and TD Summer Reading Club 2022 (Canada). Commended for Purple Dragonfly Book Award 2023 (United States). Short-listed for Elizabeth Cleaver Picture Book Award 2023 (Canada) and Next Generation Indie Book Award 2023 (United States) and Jean Little First-Novel Award 2023 (Canada). Nominated for Shining Willow Award 2023 (Canada).
Book Information
ISBN 9781773217208
Author Sid Sharp
Format Hardback
Page Count 120
Imprint Annick Press Ltd
Publisher Annick Press Ltd
