My Father Doesn’t Know
About the Woods and Me
by Dennis Haseley
illustrated by Michael Hays
Atheneum 1988
When his father calls him for their walk in the woods, the boy is out the door in a flash. They enjoy their walks together, but there are some things about the boy and the woods that his father doesn't know. He doesn't know, for instance, that when his son runs ahead he is transformed. The father doesn't realize that the wolf he sees, and the bird and the fish leaping from the stream, are his son. But then the boy–a boy again–encounters in a thicket an enormous deer, and it is the look in the deer's eyes later, that tell him that he and his father might share more than he had ever thought before.