Ms. Pettigrew is the Kind Headmaster of The School for Wayward Fish Children
Ms. Pettigrew's big heart has always been a source of much admiration. Throughout her twenties, she traveled the world preforming random acts of kindness and generosity. Now in her thirties, she is ready to settle down and center her good deeds at one endeavor. When she heard about The School for Wayward Fish Children, she new it would be a perfect match for her.
When I was titling this picture, my mind flashed back to the book 'St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves' by Karen Russel. It's a beautiful and amazing book of short stories. The stories are so imaginative and the characters are all bizare yet identifiable. But thinking about this book made me curious about real cases of children raised by wolves or other animals, so called 'Feral Children.' I always believed that there had been incidents of children being raised by wolves, but in the same way I used to believe in Unicorns. They were out there, just so magical and elusive that many people didn't know of their existence. But it turns out with the case of Feral Children, there are documented cases! For instance, Traian Căldărar of Romania lived for three years with wild dogs in the wilderness. In 1672, there was an Irish boy raised by sheep. Lyokha was a Russian boy brought up by wolves who displayed typical wolf-like behavior. The imagined cases of wolf children seem very romantic. Children unencumbered by tiresome social expectations of civilized society get to live a life of freedom in the exciting wilderness. Instead of human friends, the children are friends with forest animals. Of course the real accounts are often tragic stories of children orphaned with no where to go. Once the children are reintroduced into society it is extremely difficult to assimilate. It sounds lonely.
*All Info about children raised by animals from Wikipedia's article on 'Feral Children.'*
When I was titling this picture, my mind flashed back to the book 'St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves' by Karen Russel. It's a beautiful and amazing book of short stories. The stories are so imaginative and the characters are all bizare yet identifiable. But thinking about this book made me curious about real cases of children raised by wolves or other animals, so called 'Feral Children.' I always believed that there had been incidents of children being raised by wolves, but in the same way I used to believe in Unicorns. They were out there, just so magical and elusive that many people didn't know of their existence. But it turns out with the case of Feral Children, there are documented cases! For instance, Traian Căldărar of Romania lived for three years with wild dogs in the wilderness. In 1672, there was an Irish boy raised by sheep. Lyokha was a Russian boy brought up by wolves who displayed typical wolf-like behavior. The imagined cases of wolf children seem very romantic. Children unencumbered by tiresome social expectations of civilized society get to live a life of freedom in the exciting wilderness. Instead of human friends, the children are friends with forest animals. Of course the real accounts are often tragic stories of children orphaned with no where to go. Once the children are reintroduced into society it is extremely difficult to assimilate. It sounds lonely.
*All Info about children raised by animals from Wikipedia's article on 'Feral Children.'*