Feral children books | Works of fiction

"Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk — as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed." From Kipling: The Jungle Book.

FeralChildren.com says Inspired by the French medieval tale Valentine and Orson, this moving, insightful novella from award-winning author Marly Youmans reclaims a 500-year-old epic for contemporary readers.

Through the dazzling double-story of a stolen twin and the secrets of an ancient forest, Youmans roams also among the sweet spirits of Shakespeare's romance plays.

FeralChildren.com says Homeless Jack Crabbe meets Vicky in a Liverpool squat. Why can't she talk properly and how does she have an uncanny knowledge of his dark secrets? When Vicky disappears, Jack's search for her uncovers the horrors of her early life as a confined child. Although he sets out to help her, he soon finds she has much to teach him, setting him on his own journey to self discovery and healing. Consider The Lilies is the winner of the 2007 Impress Novel Prize for New Writers.

FeralChildren.com says "The story is set in India, in a city loosely based on Bhopal. The central character is a teenage boy whose back is badly twisted, forcing him to go on all fours. This led to his being nicknamed 'Animal' by his cruel little playmates. He is thus not really a feral child, but is semi-wild, having lived alone in the streets for years and slept alone in the jungles that have grown up in grounds of the abandoned factory that had caused the city's problems. Animal is full of withering contempt for the sordid human world and decides that he is better off as an animal — he mocks human laws and customs — says that as an animal they don't apply to him and he will do as he wants — and he he does." © Indra Sinha

FeralChildren.com says The story of a wolf-girl. The author says: "Dans Je suis la bête, j'ai voulu essayer de renverser les perspectives. Donner langue à une histoire où la compassion est pour une fois du côté de l'animal. A la place de l'homme, la bête entend cette fois l'enfant, être d'argile qui sera modelé tour à tour par l'une puis par l'autre.

Cette situation est intensément romanesque dans la mesure où il s'agit de décrire avec une précision extrême quelque chose qui n'a jamais été raconté : le monologue d'un enfant sauvage qui vit, chasse et combat dans la forêt. Quelle langue donner à un tel récit ? Quel est l'accent de la sauvagerie, ce parler particulier d'une expérience tellement impressionnante que l'on n'en pourra point douter ?

Tel a été pour moi l'un des enjeux les plus palpitants de ce livre : trouver cette scansion de fond de gorge, de fond de bois, qui remonte peu à peu jusqu'au rebord de ses lèvres. Inventer un langage qui donnera voix au fantastique, c'est-à-dire à une réalité insoupçonnable, au delà des marges, au delà de tout."

FeralChildren.com says Wild Child by T Coraghessan Boyle is a novella based on the story of Victor of Aveyron.

FeralChildren.com says In the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns.

FeralChildren.com says A rather unusual book that will not appeal to everyone. Excellent writing but perhaps sometimes bizarre events. An eight-year-old girl survives on a mountain with animal companions and a ghost sort of thing. Nevertheless, such high quality writing that it's an excellent and enthralling read.

FeralChildren.com says In this thriller, the murders in a small Kansas town are being committed by a man who was raised in isolation in an extensive cave system, his mother (who got pregnant out of wedlock and hid him to keep him from being taken away) his only contact with the outside world.

FeralChildren.com says A fictionalised account of Victor of Aveyron, adding the dimension of human emotion to the true facts.

FeralChildren.com says One of the characters finds a book about The Green Children and becomes obsessed with their mysterious story.

FeralChildren.com says The central character becomes involved with an expatriate American woman trying to save a feral child who was quite possibly raised by wolves.

FeralChildren.com says Set in Michigan. A man who had lived in the wild is befriended by a woman who can see beyond his wild appearance to the man inside.

FeralChildren.com says Dirk, found in the forest as a young child, is treated as something feral and wild by other members of the bush settlement in Victoria in 1840. At seventeen, when he finds a cache of sovereigns inside a log he is splitting, Dirk realises he has been given his independence. With the sovereigns tied around his waist, he sets out to discover what the world holds, who he is and what he wants to do with his life. Dirk travels to the frontiers of the new and strange land and comes to understand himself in the process. This is an evocative, exciting story on a broad, sweeping canvas. Peopled with vivid characters, Wildlight is set against a backdrop of burgeoning settlement in Victoria.

FeralChildren.com says The third in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, this novel includes the discovery of a feral child who lived with lions.

FeralChildren.com says Living with wolves as a child gave tracker Ukiah Oregon a heightened sense of smell and taste. Or so he thought-until he crossed paths with a criminal gang known as the Pack. Now, Ukiah is about to discover just how much he has in common with the Pack: a bond of blood, brotherhood…and destiny.

FeralChildren.com says A mythical tale of how the American West was won, featuring two children, one white and one black, who fall off the back of an overloaded wagon heading into Kansas in 1859 and are raised by coyotes

FeralChildren.com says Although fiction, this book does examine in depth the moral problems that such children raise when they re-enter human societies.

FeralChildren.com says A book for children based on the story of Victor of Aveyron, although the material is for an older age range.

FeralChildren.com says A girl is kidnapped and locked in a room for a year and becomes doll-like.

FeralChildren.com says A a feral young man is discovered living with wolves in a remote area of upper Michigan.

FeralChildren.com says A mute urban feral child, Adam, is discovered living in the catacombs under New York's Grand Central station.

FeralChildren.com says A child brought up by hyenas in the Kalahari desert and Okovango delta.

FeralChildren.com says The Roman poet Ovid, in exile, tells the story of his encounter with a wild boy, brought up among wolves in the snow. At first the poet assumes the role of protector of the boy; gradually, however, the roles of protector and protected are reversed as the two form a curious and touching alliance.

FeralChildren.com says Morag runs away from society and lives in a cave in complete isolation, foraging for food. She eventually has a baby.

FeralChildren.com says A boy whose mother was exposed to a dose of radiation when pregnant is endowed with the power to breathe long enough to live with dolphins: fortunate indeed, because a chance explosion tosses him into the sea where a bereaved dolphin mother brings him up.

FeralChildren.com says 10-year-old Fiona's baby brother was washed out to sea and, someone believes, is being brought up by seals. Fiona then spots a naked boy and makes it her goal to uncover the secret of Roan Inish.

FeralChildren.com says A number of tales that owe a lot to Kipling.

FeralChildren.com says Very much in the same vein as Tarzan, a feral boy is raised by monkeys.

FeralChildren.com says A boy Lincoln Rand is born in a remote island in the Arctic circle. Orphaned, and initially raised by the indigenous inhabitants of the island who rename him Kioga, Lincoln escapes to be brought up by bears and a snow-lion named Mika.

FeralChildren.com says Set in Africa, a feral boy is raised by leopards.

FeralChildren.com says An African jungle setting for this female child brought up by lions.

FeralChildren.com says An orphaned boy is brought up by lions in Africa.

FeralChildren.com says Fantasy novel along the lines of Kipling's Mowgli about a boy raised with wild beasts in India.

FeralChildren.com says A work of fiction based on the story of La Folle des Pyrénées.

FeralChildren.com says A native American boy is raised by wolves in the Pacific North-West.

FeralChildren.com says A collection of short stories of which one, Primordial, is about a feral boy.

FeralChildren.com says A Tarzan-like novel.

FeralChildren.com says The title story is another Tarzan-like feral boy story.

FeralChildren.com says Hyne's second speculative novel, in which a scientist isolates a boy and girl on two remote tropical islands for experimental purposes. "A Robinsonade of feral man, embodying a philosophy of social development. An interesting document, surprisingly frank for its period, and prepared without the sensationalism of Hyne's other work. It is reasonably rigorous within the author's frame of reference."

FeralChildren.com says A somewhat crazy travel-adventure spoof. The first part describes Saturnin Farandoul being brought up by monkeys.

FeralChildren.com says The eight-year-old son of a planter is kidnapped, and then brought up for some years, by an orang-utan.

FeralChildren.com says The eight-year-old son of a planter is kidnapped, and then brought up for some years, by an orang-utan.

FeralChildren.com says I was now, by Jackson's account, nearly fourteen years old. During fourteen years but one vessel had been seen by us. It might be fourteen more, or double that time might elapse, before I should again fall in with any of my fellow-creatures. As these thoughts saddened me, I felt how much I would nave sacrificed if Jackson had remained alive, were it only for his company; I would have forgiven him anything. I even then felt as if, in the murderer of my father, I had lost a friend.

FeralChildren.com says The Life and Surprizing Adventures of Don Antonio de Trezzanio, who was self-educated, and lived forty-five years in an uninhabited Island in the East-Indies ... Adorned with copper-plates.

FeralChildren.com says The capacity and extent of the human understanding; exemplified in the extraordinary case of Automathes; a young nobleman, who was accidentally left in his infancy, upon a desolate island, and continued nineteen years in that solitary state, separate from all human society

FeralChildren.com says Containing a relation how that young nobleman was accidentally left alone, in his infancy, upon a desolate island; where he lived nineteen years ... With an account of his life, reflections, and improvements in knowledge, during his continuance in that solitary state. The whole, as taken from his own mouth.