The Winter Wolf (2 Illustrated edition)

A fairy tale in the Oscar Wilde tradition. Each winter, when the last snows fell, the great wolf came to the centre of the forest, and wept.

Always at midnight he came, raising his anguished howl to the tree tops.

Neither the blackness deterred him, nor the wind, nor the spite of frost.

The cry of the wolf could not be ignored. So heart-breaking was it that even baby sparrows, tucked beak-to-beak inside their nests, awoke and wondered. 'Does the wolf weep from hunger?' they asked their mothers. 'Or is he lonely? Perhaps he is cold? Does he even have a home?'A wolf and a squirrel share a story neither will ever forget.