Rebecca Saxe reviews Encounters with Wild Children by Adriana S. Benzaquén. “What can we learn from the wild child? In every generation, the idea of a child growing up in isolation from society provokes deep and persistent questions about what it means to be human. . . . Wild children intrigue and enthrall because they seem to offer a morally permissible version of the forbidden experiment, one whose initial conditions are created not by cruel scientists but by cruel parents or cruel accident.” (Boston Review)