After that, there's no knowing what will happen next, as while stalled in traffic jams or nodding off at night, the boys chime in and the story races on and Waldo finds, if not necessarily dinner, his just desserts.įirst published in 1947 and wonderfully illustrated by Warren Chappell, William McCleery's Wolf Story is a delicious treat for fathers and sons and daughters and mothers alike. Waldo the wolf is sneaking up on Rainbow the hen, when Jimmy Tractorwheel, the son of the local farmer, comes along. It is as Michael always demands: a Wolf Story, which begins one night at bedtime and spins wildly on through subsequent bedtimes and Sunday outings to the beach and park in a succession of ever more trickily tantalizing episodes. And when I was away he worked for six weeks and he wrote the whole thing and presented it to me when we returned.This irresistible book is about: a father, his five-year-old son, Michael (intelligent, crafty, addicted to stories), Michael's best friend Stefan (stalwart listener, equally addicted to stories), and, well-what else?-a story. was not happy with things as they were going to be.
"My mother and I were going to Reno, Nev., in, whatever that was, '46 I guess, to get a quickie divorce - seemed like she took forever to me. Michael McCleery, now 72, tells NPR's Scott Simon about why his father wrote Wolf Story, and what it's like for him to read it. Now, the New York Review Children's Collection has reissued it. The resulting Wolf Story was acclaimed when it came out in 1947, but it's been out of print for decades. And, together with the artist Warren Chappell, he turned that elaborate wolf story into a short book for children. Over weeks and weeks, William serialized the story, telling it in installments to Michael and his best friend during bedtimes and Sunday afternoon outings.īut William wasn't just a dad - he was also a Broadway playwright. So his father, William McCleery, produced a tale that revolved around a wolf named Waldo, a hen named Rainbow, and another little boy, the son of a farmer, named Jimmy Tractorwheel. One night in 1947, an intensely curious 5-year-old boy named Michael McCleery asked his father for a story.
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