Bea Wolf — Zach Weinersmith & Boulet

Bea Wolf — Zach Weinersmith & Boulet

Treeheart is in danger.

The neighborhood hideaway—home to all things wild, rowdy, joyful, and kid-powered—is under attack. Grindle, a joyless grown-up who cannot abide the sound of children having fun, carries a terrible power: kids who fall under his influence become boring teenagers and adults. Truly the worst curse imaginable.

But there is hope.

The children call upon the legendary Bea Wolf, and what follows is a gloriously funny, action-packed retelling of Beowulf, transformed into an epic battle for childhood itself.

Zach Weinersmith brings the rhythms and grandeur of heroic poetry crashing into backyard forts, toys, candy, friendship, and chaotic kid energy, while Boulet’s rich, expressive artwork gives this pint-sized epic a world worthy of its heroes.

Clever enough for grown-ups and wonderfully unruly for younger readers, Bea Wolf is a graphic novel about adventure, growing up, and the fierce importance of places where kids get to be kids.

Details

• Full-color graphic novel
• Written by Zach Weinersmith
• Illustrated by Boulet
• Inspired by the Old English epic Beowulf
• Middle grade and up
• Mythology retelling / adventure / humor

Why We Love It

An ancient epic about a monster terrorizing a great hall becomes a story about a grown-up threatening the neighborhood tree fort—and somehow it works spectacularly well.

We love books that trust younger readers with clever language and big ideas without forgetting to be enormous fun. Bea Wolf does exactly that. It takes childhood play completely seriously, turns it into legend, and reminds grown-up readers just how important those unruly little worlds once were.

Long live Treeheart.