1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Watt, Melanie. 2006. SCAREDY SQUIRREL. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press. ISBN 1553379594
2. PLOT SUMMARY
Routine is very important to Scaredy Squirrel. Everything is under control...until a killer bee scares him out of his tree. But this proves to be a defining moment in his life as he learns that he can fly.
3. IMPRESSIONS
What a simple concept Watt has stumbled upon! Can't squirrels have the same fears kids do? Things happen to throw us off course, but it doesn't always have to be bad. Of course this moral can be totally masked by the really funny pictures and words depicting the squirrel playing dead, mapping out his schedule, and putting together his emergency kit. Again, another great book for humor and nonsense.
This book is listed at the third grade level, but because of the easy readability and graphic layout, kids as young as first can enjoy...and understand..."Scaredy Squirrel".
Watt, Melanie. 2006. SCAREDY SQUIRREL. Tonawanda, NY: Kids Can Press. ISBN 1553379594
2. PLOT SUMMARY
Routine is very important to Scaredy Squirrel. Everything is under control...until a killer bee scares him out of his tree. But this proves to be a defining moment in his life as he learns that he can fly.
3. IMPRESSIONS
What a simple concept Watt has stumbled upon! Can't squirrels have the same fears kids do? Things happen to throw us off course, but it doesn't always have to be bad. Of course this moral can be totally masked by the really funny pictures and words depicting the squirrel playing dead, mapping out his schedule, and putting together his emergency kit. Again, another great book for humor and nonsense.
This book is listed at the third grade level, but because of the easy readability and graphic layout, kids as young as first can enjoy...and understand..."Scaredy Squirrel".
4. REVIEW EXCERPTS
* Starred review in PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY: "Watt largely dispenses with conventional visual storytelling; instead, she tells the hero's story through a series of boldly graphic and endearingly goofy charts and diagrams (one outlines the anxious rodent's "top secret," four-option plan for exiting the tree in case of emergency). Funny in their own right, the pages also spoof all the sincerely inane worksheets that are the staple of elementary school homework. Youngsters will go nuts over this one."
* Starred review in SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: "With his iconic nervous grin and over-the-top punctiliousness, Scaredy Squirrel is an endearing character. Thick-lined cartoons with bold patches of color, quirky charts and graphs, and clever asides provide humor that will appeal to children. Like other successful worrywarts before him, such as Kevin Henkes’s Wemberly Worried (HarperCollins, 2000) and Rosemary Wells’s Felix and the Worrier (Candlewick, 2003), Scaredy Squirrel needn’t fret about finding readers to cheer him on."
* Starred review in SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL: "With his iconic nervous grin and over-the-top punctiliousness, Scaredy Squirrel is an endearing character. Thick-lined cartoons with bold patches of color, quirky charts and graphs, and clever asides provide humor that will appeal to children. Like other successful worrywarts before him, such as Kevin Henkes’s Wemberly Worried (HarperCollins, 2000) and Rosemary Wells’s Felix and the Worrier (Candlewick, 2003), Scaredy Squirrel needn’t fret about finding readers to cheer him on."
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