A caged dog tells his own story of loneliness and hunger for companionship while knowing people fear him and his wolf-like cry. A shepherd comes and says he looks like a shepherd dog, and he invites the dog to come with him. The dog is then transformed by having a chance to live in the openness of fields and sky. He has a life of running and tending sheep in deep companionship with the shepherd.

2016 Outstanding International Book, United States Board on Books for Young People, USA.

Author/illustrator lives in Paris. Translator lives in Heidelberg.

French. Originally published in France as Tout d'unloup by Elan Vert in 2013. English translation by Géraldine Elschner published in the United States by Michael Neugebauer/ Minefield in 2015.