Some celebrities are, shall we say, more suited to writing children’s books than others. Hold the eye rolls then, for TV historian and academic Alice Roberts. Wolf Road (Simon & Schuster), her debut, is set in a landscape she conjures expertly: prehistoric Europe, where tween girl Tuuli and her tribe follow the reindeer across wild, changing landscapes – illicit wolf cub in tow.
Roberts is treading in big footsteps here. Michelle “Wolf Brother’” Paver is the don of paleolithic wolf-quests. But Roberts acquits herself admirably, bringing the lives of ice age hunter-gatherers to vivid life while juggling evergreen themes: the alarming climate, the treatment of outsiders, and the young questioning the old ways.
