Wolf and his underpants are back, this time during the frosty cold winter. When he starts mentioning,”They’re freezing” every time he comes to town, the stumped animals try to guess what is wrong. When a nosy bird eavesdrops on a conversation between Wolf and some small animals in the woods, the other animals think Wolf has gone off the deep end. Hopefully, a solution can be reached before it’s too late.

Um... no.

This is a book about a crabby wolf. It tries to have a message about consumption and resources, but even that doesn't work. All I can see is an adult wolf wearing underpants luring children into his house for their own "protection".

Do I really need to spend any more time unpacking what's wrong with this? Maybe it doesn't seem so odd in Europe, but in North America, if a man's walking around in nothing but his underpants and inviting children to his house, it's a big red flag.

This is not a children's book.

Not a great book, it shows a lively winter countryside seemingly lorded over by a vicious wolf, and anyone who goes to deliver succour to him (such as socks or a hat) is never seen again. Two things act against the piece for me – one, the fact that it all hinges on a mishearing which is supposed to be an amusing pun, and second, that the moral of the piece seems to extend from the reasonable 'lets all not prejudge each other, kids' to the ludicrous 'why don't we house all the homeless now it's cold while we're at it?!' I can't say I took to the busy, cartoonish art either. Two stars.