I loved the artwork and creativity that was packed into this graphic novel. It has so much potential for engaging young readers, both in its inviting form and subject matter.

This is a very cute tale of a farm dog who befriends a pack of wolves and runs with them for a bit. It has some great images and very good lessons. Great for readers of all ages
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I love talking animal books. I love books about dogs. I especially love books about dogs that join wolf packs. So Wild Thing should have been a great match for me, but sadly it was not. The art style was not a match for my taste, and the story was a little too unrealistic for me. Sorry I didn't have a better opinion on this one!

Wild Thing by Clayton Junior has a cute cover and premise, unfortunately the story itself was not so cute. The drawing was fine but not beautiful, which would be fine if the story itself was good, but the story over all left a negative feeling not overcome by the attempt at forcing a happy ending. And additionally I felt that what appeared to be jokes in it did not come over well as jokes to 'save' it with humor. I had hoped it would be good for my animal loving kid but won't be passing in on. I read this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

A sheep farm's worst ever guard dog goes AWOL one night when it stumbles into the company of a pair of wolves, in this all-ages-friendly graphic novel. Despite them disparaging the dog for all eternity, he sticks it out with the wolves, howling like them, ignoring the new nickname they give him of 'Toy', and so on, until he's become a lot more feral and spunky than he ever appeared while at work on the farm. The problem with this book is that it has quite silly ideas about anthropomorphising things, not only giving very modern speech patterns to the animals but making one of the wolves sketch out a hunting plan in the soil. I wasn't sure why we actually needed a layer of dialogue on things anyway – turns out the author has form with silent books, and as much as I found flaws with the graphics that act as wordless nature studies by Frederic Brremaud, they got away without speech bubbles, and the 'joke' here about sheep being a bit dim and repetitive is not exactly great fun. The way these animals appear here, in this kind of narrative, gives this book a bit of an antiquated feel. That (and the very weak nature of what passes as the plot) means I couldn't really see it becoming a huge success. One and a half stars.

This is a pretty cute graphic novel! I really like the art-style and the way the animals talk to each other. The sheep being annoying and asking the same questions over and over definitely captures their essence! The only negative I have to say about this is that I felt like there were some lack of connection between the various parts, so it felt kind of like just jumping from one thing to the next sometimes, and the moment in between was never really discussed. Overall a good graphic novel tho!