But can a jackal and a wolf really live side by side?

Heralded as `the Michael Morpurgo of China', multi-award-winning Shen Shixi is set to delight a whole new audience with Jackal and Wolf.

Children who have loved The Animals of Farthing Wood will revel in this `survival of the fittest' story of family ties.

This book features in the following series: Banana Books, Green Bananas .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Lynne Rickards is a writer and has worked as a translator in Toronto, a proofreader in Montreal, and an editor in Glasgow. Her early career included a brief stint as a children's illustrator for Crabtree Publishing Company. Rosalind Beardshaw has illustrated many books for children. These include the award-winning Lulu series and the National Trust's A Walk in the Countryside series. She lives in York with her family.