Roundabout Books is excited to welcome back New York Times and Indie bestselling author Rosanne Parry to the store on May 22 at 6:30pm in a free event to talk about her latest middle-grade, illustrated novel, A Wolf Called Fire.
Parry is known for her ability to write convincingly from an animal’s point of view, as demonstrated in her popular books A Wolf Called Wander and A Whale of the Wild, which have been translated into 14 languages. The stand-alone companion to Rosanne Parry’s New York Times bestseller A Wolf Called Wander tells the wilderness survival story of the wolf pup known as Warm and is illustrated in black and white throughout.
Warm is the smallest pup, the one his father calls the heart of the pack. But all Warm sees is his bigger brothers Sharp and Swift, even his sisters Pounce and Wag, winning all the wrestling matches. Fortunately, with a little help from wise and experienced pup watcher Growl, Warm begins to understand the vital role an omega wolf (the lowest rank in the pack) plays—in its way equally as important as the alpha.
Just as Warm is finding his place, enemy wolves come to destroy and scatter the pack. Warm helps lead the pups away from the fight, only to find himself alone with four pups to defend and feed. Can he be both the heart and the head of a new pack? Does he have to choose the aggressive leadership style of his father and brothers? Or is there another way?
Warm hopes the answer will lie in finding his favorite brother, Swift, and asking him to lead the pups. When Warm’s mission ends in failure and injury, he falls into despair. But the pups he has so carefully trained in stealth and survival heroically find him, bringing him a glimmer of hope for the future. The enemy pack soon comes to hunt them down, and Warm must find the warrior in his own heart. With four reckless but true-hearted pups at his side, and an unexpected ally in the enemy pack, how can he fail to earn his alpha name, Fire?
A Wolf Called Fire is a stand-alone companion novel to A Wolf Called Wander. It’s inspired by Wolf 8, a real Yellowstone wolf who was the smallest of his pack and constantly bullied by his bigger brothers. Wolf 8 survived a tumultuous first year and grew up to be a different sort of leader—one who fought many rival wolves to submission but never killed one. He had a rare talent for mentoring young wolves and became the patriarch of the largest and most successful pack in Yellowstone by choosing a more collaborative and generous leadership style.
Rosanne Parry is the author of the bestselling novels A Wolf Called Wander, A Whale of the Wild, and A Horse Named Sky as well as The Wolf Effect, a picture book illustrated by Jennifer Thermes. These “Voice of the Wilderness” stories center the voices of wild animals and focus on their struggle to survive in a dangerous and changing world. Based on rigorous research and inspired by the real animals of the western United States, Rosanne’s books are treasured by teachers and librarians and adored by animal-loving readers of all ages. The author lives with her family in Portland, Oregon, and writes in a treehouse in her backyard.
This is a free event. For further information, please contact Roundabout Books’ Event Manager, Julie Swearingen, at julie@roundaboutbookshop.com
Roundabout Bookshop is a full-service independent bookstore, located in the heart of Bend’s Northwest Crossing Community. The staff takes tremendous pride in their highly curated selection of new adult and children’s books. Local Bend resident, Cassie Clemans, founded Roundabout Books with a vision of enhancing the life of our community by providing a warm and comfortable literary space where people of all ages are welcome to read, browse, shop for books, meet a friend, or enjoy an event.
