The Wild Girl by Christopher Wormell

This story is pretty good. It's a very simple story about a feral child and her adventures... not that many as this is a short book, but it talks about her everyday life to introduce her and then as winter comes she has a run in with a bear. She has a dog with her as her only companion.
 
The illustrations aren't anything to go crazy over and are almost as simple as the story telling. The simplicity of the art does add to the sort of barrenness of her surrounding though, and emphasizes her aloneness, not as a negative thing, just as the reality.
 
The reader doesn't really get to know the girl or get a back story to why she lives out in the wilderness, it's more just a story about a day in the eyes or this girl. The story starts off establishing that the girl lives alone in the wild and has to to everything for herself, like get food, so she hunts and cooks with her little dog. Then as winter approaches she looks for a cave to live in and finds one, but there are bear tracks leading to and from it. She goes in the cave and a little while later a bear appears at the entrance. The girl blocks the bear's way and it goes away, but then the girl realizes that the bear's cub was in the cave, so she takes the cub and her dog and goes out to look for the bear. They can't find the bear and go back to the cave where they find the bear waiting, and then they all sleep together for the winter. Basically. It's nothing scary.
 
The print is nice and big and there aren't too many words to a page, just enough necessary to get the story across to the reader, so this would probably be a decent book to give to a beginner with some experience.