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Marie-Catherine Homassel-Hecquet (June 12, 1686 – 8 July 1764) was a French biographical author of the first half of the 18th century. She was the wife of the Abbeville merchant Jacques Homassel and the semi-anonymous "Madame H–––t" who published a pamphlet biography of the famous feral child Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, Histoire d'une jeune fille sauvage trouvée dans les bois à ...
A 1999 episode of The Pretender titled" Wild Child" featured a young wild girl that was named Violet (portrayed by Lindsey Evanson). Jarod witnesses her being dragged away in a police car after being caught by hunters near their trailer. The wild girl was shown to be barefoot, had back-length hair, and was wearing some type of ripped dress.
A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization . [ 1 ]
Snowdrift: A white wolf; Ebony's mate and the alpha female of the wolf pack Granite joins. She is the mother of Roamer, Climber, and five wolf pups who were kidnapped by two men seeking for wolves to breed with dogs. During a search for her pups when Granite is older, Snowdrift is blinded by a hunter shooting from a plane.
The book was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1973, [9] and was a nominee under the Children's Books category in the 1973 National Book Awards. [10] Mary Ellen Halvorson describes the book as "uniquely sensitive" and "wonderfully educational" in a review for The Prescott Courier. [11] The book also won the 1975 German Youth Literature Award. [12]
[4] [5] [6] Lindskold released two more books in the series through this publisher, Wolf Hunting (2006) and Wolf's Blood (2007). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The series was then moved to the publisher Obsidian Tiger, through which the novels Wolf's Search and Wolf's Soul were released in 2019 and 2020, respectively.
Jane Yolen's book, Children of the Wolf, is a fictionalized account of the story for young adult readers. Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple's book, History Mystery: The Wolf Girls, is a children's non-fiction book about the account. Lord Robert Baden-Powell gives a short account of the story in Chapter 6 of his 1940 book, More Sketches of Kenya
Bider: A white wolf who is the outcast of the pack. He fights with King over whether or not the pack should hunt cows and anger the humans, and is banished. His name comes from the fact he is "biding his time" to take over from King. He dies eating meat that a farmer poisoned to catch him. Goldie: A dog owned by the humans who rescue Runt.