Hoky the Caring Wolf. César Blanco

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      Hoky the Caring Wolf

      Text © 2012 César Blanco

      Illustrations © 2012 Blanca Bk

      This edition © 2012 Cuento de Luz SL

      Calle Claveles 10 | Urb Monteclaro | Pozuelo de Alarcón |

      28223 Madrid | Spain | www.cuentodeluz.com

      Original title in Spanish: Hoky el lobo solidario

      English translation by Jon Brokenbrow

      ISBN: 978-84-15619-22-2

      All rights reserved.

      To my children Helena and Álvaro, who told me this story night after night when they were small.

      - César Blanco

      To Momo, my fairy godmother. Don’t ever change!

      - Blanca Bk

      the Caring Wolf

      Hoky

      César Blanco Blanca Bk

      Once upon a time, there was a poor, lone wolf who lived in the mountains near a tiny village called Aldburg. Near the village, there was also a big lake full of fish and ducks, where the children would swim in the summer.

      All of the people in the region lived happily in this beautiful place covered in green meadows and thick forests full of oaks and chestnuts, a place where the snow would cover everything in the winter, and the children would make snowmen and zoom down-hill on their sleds.

      Hoky, for that was his name, was the only survivor of the last wolf pack that lived in the region. In winter, when the mountains were covered with snow and they had nothing to eat, the wolves would come down to the villa-ge at night and creep into the farms, stealing chickens, rabbits and sheep.

      The people of Aldburg, furious at losing so many of their animals to the wolves, decided to organize a hunt to get rid of them.

      At dawn, all of the men met up in the village square, armed with sticks and shotguns and with their dogs at their sides.