Bringing Back the Wolves: How a Predator Restored an Ecosystem (Ecosystem Guardians, 1)

One of favorite YouTube videos to show my science classes in third grade is “How Wolves Change Rivers”. There is so much great information that it’s hard to process it all as adult, much less a 9 year old. This book is the perfect companion. We watch the video first. Then, we read one or two pages at a time so we can discuss it. The students are mesmerized and come sit closer to see. It is one of my favorite books to read!

This book is so beautiful and educational. It's so good I could almost cry. As a homeschooling mom, I buy a lot of books to try to entice my kids into learning things.This book is functionally educational, without being heavy. Perfectly illustrating how different plants and animals work in a cohesive ecosystem, and how taking parts out impact the whole. While also giving us some fun insights about wolves, and Yellowstone.This book is not a dissection of all things wolf, just to be clear, but it is designed to show the importance and impact that reintroducing wolves back into their natural habitats creates a better and lasting environment for all.

My 7 yr old son loves nature, and biology and ecosystems so this was right up his alley. This was part of our bedtime reading. We also watched some you tube videos on the reintroduction of the wolves into Yellowstone to go along with this. The impact from the wolves is amazing! My son was a little disappointed in the pictures…he would have preferred photographs or more detailed pictures.

This book is outstanding.

I have not been this excited about a book in a long time, and I am highly recommending Bringing Back the Wolves: How a Predator Restored an Ecosystem to anyone wanting to learn more about how nature works with balance. This book is written by Jude Isabella and wonderfully illustrated by Kim Smith. This book is written for children ages 8 – 12 years, but I think this book can make a difference to even adult readers.It tells the story of Yellowstone National Park and how one animal can make a huge difference in an ecosystem. In the 1800’s the American government paid hunters to eliminate threats to livestock on ranches near the park. By 1926 every gray wolf pack was gone from Yellowstone. Once the wolves were gone, many changes were seen in the park, plants, animals, even how the streams worked were all affected by the absence of the wolves.In 1995 the government reintroduced the gray wolves back into Yellowstone National Park as a way to reverse the course that these changes had done. Over time, Yellowstone has started to stabilize again, and we are seeing a healthy ecosystem once again starting to flourish.Bringing Back The Wolves Science told through words and picturesThis book does an amazing job of making the science easy to understand. For example, there is a graphic on the Yellowstone Food Web and it’s amazing to see how so many things are connected in this web. When the wolves were removed, the prey animals (such as the elk) grew in population because they didn’t have the predator danger. So they started eating trees and new plants because there were outgrowing their food supply. This changed the landscape of Yellowstone.Then this book explained that even the sounds of Yellowstone had changed. With huge herds of elk and the absence of howling, bird songs and even the sounds like sounds of the water running because now instead of meandering brooks that used to be shallow, the streams had become deep an straight due to the changes in the ecosystem. These are things that we might not think about, but this book teaches the reader so many things. These are just 2 examples from this story, but you will learn a lot more about the ecosystem and how it interacts with one another.Whether you know someone that dreams of becoming a scientist or naturalist, or a child that loves a story about how good can come back in the world, Bringing Back the Wolves: How a Predator Restored an Ecosystem will be a great fit for a wide variety of readers. Learning that we can make a difference, and enjoying the exploration of the why behind the world that we live in, and all share.

The wolves are back in Yellowstone! But, what does that mean for the land and animals still there? Reintroducing the gray wolf set off a chain reaction throughout the park. This book explains in child-appropriate vocabulary and depth the very real effects this had on the land and its communities.For those who love wolves, nature, and/ or are learning about food webs this book is a great resource. It is well researched and presented in appealing illustrations. Younger kids will love the art, older elementary to middle school will understand the connections and the science.Highly recommend it!#BringingBacktheWolves #NetGalleyThank you @Netgalley and @KidsCanPress for access to this ARC in return for an unbiased and voluntary review

It was interesting but some parts could have been wrapped up better. I read this to a second grader and it took a few days to read because I didn’t want to bore her/overload her information. The drawings were nice.

Para biblioteca de aula, de ciencias bilingies de 5° està muy bien. Buena calidad. Dibujos bonitos. Con informaciòn suficiente. Se puede usar como modelo para que luego investiguen sobre otros animales.