If I'd known ahead of time how many throats would be ripped out in the course of these stories, I might not have picked these as lunchtime audiobooks.

In both The Call of the Wild and White Fang, I found Jack London's manner of seeing the world through a dog's or wolf's eyes intriguing. Often, it wasn't like he was seeing things as a human mind inside of a dog but rather seeing directly through the dog's eyes. Of course, there's no way to know if his interpretation is accurate. The canine perspective, particularly White Fang's, certainly seems colored by the author's race biases, a distinction that I doubt that a wolf or dog would make. But London's exploration wolf and dog behavior, of the factors that lead to loyalty within a dog, and his descriptions of dog sledding and of different dog fighting techniques are interesting enough that my eleven-year-old was willing to look past some inconsistencies with wolf behavior she spotted ("Mom, wolves don't really form packs that large unless they're banding together temporarily to bring down large prey. But then it wouldn't be considered a pack..."). ( )