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Squirrel-ish

By (author) Bambi Edlund
Categories: Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Rodents and rabbits, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Small land mammals, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Mammals, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
Publisher: Owlkids Books
Hardcover : 9781771475174, 32 pages, September 2024

Description

An enterprising rat discovers the joy of being true to himself

At the park, people give squirrels free peanuts. And nobody screams when a squirrel crosses their path. But for Rat, it’s all screams and no nuts … until he comes up with a plan: be more like a squirrel—squirrel-ish!

When his attempts at adopting a squirrel-ish posture and pinning his ears down don’t make a difference, Rat considers his tail. And after a few crafty but failed squirrel-ish tail prototypes made from cotton balls, feathers, and spaghetti, he lands on a winning material: straw from a broom!

Finally, Rat can walk through the park without getting shooed. Free peanut in hand, he daydreams about building a re-tail empire … until the dogs in the park spot him and give chase. All of a sudden, Rat understands why squirrels do so much scampering! Maybe his rat tail isn’t so bad after all …

Brightly illustrated and packed with hilarious details and hidden gags, this laugh-out-loud ode to self-love reminds readers that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.