Her work is awash with color, atmosphere, and a stunning visual splendor that will enchant children while indulging their wilder tendencies. In her debut picture book, Hughes brings an uncanny humor to her painterly illustrations.
But will civilization get comfortable with her? Now she lives in the comfort of civilization. She's puzzled by their behavior and their insistence on living in these strange concrete structures: there's no green here, no animals, no trees, no rivers. That is, until she is snared by some very strange animals that look oddly like her, but they don't talk right, eat right, or play correctly. She is unashamedly, irrefutably, irrepressibly wild. In this beautiful picture book by Emily Hughes, we meet a little girl who has known nothing but nature from birth-she was taught to talk by birds, to eat by bears, and to play by foxes. Young, determined, missing her real home, the wild child would return to the woods where she embraces her nakedness, her independence and her true self.īecause you cannot tame something so happily wild…Ĭomplement Wild with Briony May Smith’s Imelda & the Goblin King and Sun-Mi Hwang’s The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly, a tender story about dreams and the journeys we make in life to achieve happiness."You cannot tame something so happily wild." With so many rules and restrictions she could not be free and happy. Part of the forest she becomes intensely distressed when she is found and taken to an apartment to be taught good manners.Ī psychiatrist observes her, taking notes, while his partner tries to tame her. Fox taught her how to play.Ī modern version of the classic characters Romulus and Remus, Tarzan and Mowgli, the girl becomes a symbol of the wilderness in people, an unsettled soul whose happiness is altered by civilisation. No one remembered how she came to the woods, but all knew it was right. The character is a cute, big-eyed, messy-haired girl who has been living in the forest since ever. Emily Hughes is just amazing – in few words but using extremely detailed illustrations she makes you reevaluate the definition of existence and of the essential things that really matter in life. I bought Wild two years ago and since then I have read it tens of times and every time it is a pleasure to contemplate the magical illustrations and to spend moments thinking of what life really means.
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