by Sami Sweeten.
A. Whitman, 1994
This is a story about "the wolf within us." Child psychologists tell us that all children, at one time or another, feel suppressed anger toward the adults who control their lives. Many children fantasize about doing violence to these powerful people. This book gives life to one such fantasy. One morning on his way to school, Leon runs into a wolf who asks if he can come to school with Leon. Leon agrees readily. When Leon explains that his teacher is horrid, the wolf smiles a funny sort of smile and eats her up. Leon is ecstatic; it looks as if the wolf can take care of all sorts of difficult people. But then things get out of control. Leon is forced to admit that he himself is horrid. He becomes one of the wolf's meals and "Suddenly, he [the wolf] fizzled and crackled and snizzled and snackled. And with a loud pop! he disappeared." And there, lying on the floor are all the people Leon thought were horrid.
