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Never Cry Wolf (book)

Never Cry Wolf is a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a moderately successful movie of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image of the North American animal to a more positive one.

It is presented as a first-person narrative of Mowat's research into the nature of the North American Wolf; however, there is some debate over whether much of the book is indeed factual. In the May, 1996 issue of Saturday Night, John Goddard poked many holes in this claim. Mowat denied Goddard's criticisms but did not refute the specific accusations. [1]

L. David Mech, an internationally recognized wolf expert who has researched wolves since 1958 in places such as Minnesota, Canada, Italy, Alaska, Yellowstone National Park, and on Isle Royale, stated that Mowat is no scientist and that in all his studies, he had never encountered a wolf pack which regularly subsisted on small prey as shown in Mowat's book.[2]

However, in Never Cry Wolf, Mowat does not suggest that the wolves he writes about subsist regularily on mice; only that they kill caribou in much smaller numbers than had been previously reported and that their diet was supplemented with small prey.


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Farley Mowat: Narrator of the book who describes his experiences with wolves in the sub-arctic [3]


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Never Cry Wolf

Smith devoted almost three years to film Never Cry Wolf. Smith said, "I was much more closely involved in that picture than I had been in any other film. Not only acting, but writing and the whole creative process." He also found the process difficult. "During much of the two-year shooting schedule in Canada’s Yukon and in Nome, Alaska, I was the only actor present. It was the loneliest film I’ve ever worked on," Smith said.[6]

Carroll Ballard, director of Never Cry Wolf, asked Smith to write much of the narration for the film.