Anastasia Strokina

Soviny volk

The Owl Wolf Rosmen. Moscow 2019. 80 pages. Illustrations by Irina Galkina Age 8+ and adults

Foreign rights:

China, Serbia (full German translation available)

Tags: philosophical tale, journey, Far North, indigenous peoples, fantastic animals, Ecology, Friendship, Support

A little girl lives in the far north, where she has no friends. And she invents a friend for herself: this is an Owl Wolf named Bubo. He teaches the girl to love the north, to understand its nature, its animals. He teaches her to look at the world through the eyes of a northern wolf.

But this book is not about nature only. There are many reflections on friendship, fear, fortitude, the planet and its protection. This book is the author's farewell to the childhood, an autobiographical recollection of life in the Arctic Circle.

It is interesting to note that the place described in the story now belongs to the “dead cities” of Russia: nobody lives there anymore. But once the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, lived and worked there.