Wiley and the Hairy Man Ready-to-Read Level 2

In this Level 2 Ready-to-Read storybook, a mother and son team up to defeat a local monster.

In this adaptation of a Southern folktale, a large and frightening creature who lives in the swamp threatens anyone who enters his home. But one young boy is not happy with the situation and, with the help of his mother, takes a stand against the bully.

Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Baltimore. She and her siblings spent summers in a scientific community by the ocean where parents worked in the labs and children learned to love the land and sea and mostly to avoid science, not realizing that science had infected them even they we rebelled against it. After studying language and literature in college, Molly became a largely self-taught artist and illustrator of children’s books, her childhood dream.