The Scallywags

Deliciously written, illustrated and presented! The Scallywags are a pack of wolves, always late, clumsy and smelly. When the other animals decide life is pleasanter without them, the Scallywags tidy themselves up, and become so clean, tidy and polite their detractors no longer recognise them, but do become very annoyed with their 'new' visitors' insistence on perfect manners.

When the moon appears, however, the wolves can't help reverting to character, and the other animals realise they actually liked them better as their true selves.

Quite apart from the text, which humorously celebrates difference and tolerance, the wonderfully energetic, funny illustrations deserve careful attention, as they contain vast quantities of wonderful detail, just as representative of ourselves as humans, as they are of wolves.