Eye of the Wolf

I Loved the beginning of this book it really made me want to read on.I started reading it in a hurry as I had to choose some books for some actors/story tellers to read in school. I was looking for a book suitable for year 6 and thought I'd read a few pages of the Eye of the Wolf to see if it was a possible choice. I stood in my kitchen and read half the book without even realising! I was fascinated by the wolf and the description of his eye and the stare off between the boy and the wolf.
The actors/storytellers who visited the school read the first part of the story to year 6 as planned and they loved it, one of the actors paced around the children staring at them whilst another read.
I returned to the book later to finish it, I enjoyed it, but was not so engaged with the characters and was a little disappointed as it hadn't lived up to the cracking start.