title: The Dream of the Thylacine
author: Margaret Wild
description: Gr 2-5-Wild and Brooks combine lyrical language with contrasting illustration styles to focus on an animal not often discussed: the Thylacine (also known as the Tasmanian Tiger). Wild's minimalist poetry packs a punch (although some of the lines are a bit Yoda-like in their structure-"Trapped am I,/in a cage of twisty wire"), and the suffering of a beast in captivity shines through. The art is the most powerful element of the book. Softly colorful, painterly, and mostly wordless spreads of the Thylacine free in the wild are juxtaposed against stark, sad, and sepia-toned pages that portray the animal in captivity. (The latter pages were made from photographic stills of a BBC film from 1937 about the last-known living example of the species.) A short note at the end gives more information on the Tasmanian Tiger and explains that it is most likely extinct. A compelling look at how we treat (or ultimately mistreat) precious wild animals.-Rita Meade, Brooklyn Public Library, NY(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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  In the year 2073, humanity is making progress toward restoring the environment
  and fixing the mistakes of the past. Ellie has spent the last ten years going
  even further by working to resurrect the thylacine, extinct since 1936. But
  with no results and increasingly impatient bureaucrats threatening to pull her
  funding, the thylacine’s future—and Ellie’s—is in danger of reaching the point
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  _Gently lifting up the side of the tent . . . I soon make out in the pitchy
  darkness two phosphorus-like orbs, which slowly approach. . . . I can dimly
  discern by a light shooting up from a few leaves on the almost expiring fire,
  the long round body of the native wolf or tiger. I get a tigh