This book is about a family that lives in Australia and by what I took from the story maybe just out of town. They are used to walking to school and playing outside whenever they wanted to, but then they begin hearing the wolf howling at night. They are terribly frightened and don’t walk to school or play outside for months. Until one morning something within him tells Tal, the oldest son to let the wolf in the house. He does and the wolf pretty much comes into the house and lies down in front of the fire. That’s where the story ends. This is a story about confronting our fears and dealing with them.

Again one of my favorite things to use in a classroom is a smart board. They are terrific, when you can figure them out. I would begin by putting this book on the smart board as I read it out loud, and allowing the children to see the pictures in this book that depicted the children's hardship and fear. Then as a part of this lesson get the class to write a short story about something that they have been afraid of or what they thought that the children in this story might have been going through.