Gray Squirrel Loses It!

(Hardback)

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Welcome to the forest, where a fact-filled tour awaits. That isuntil a frantic squirrel bursts onto your page searching for his misplaced nut. Help him find it in this hilarious picture book, perfect for fans of The Leaf Thief and The Interrupting Chicken.

Gray Squirrel has a problem. He cant find his nut, and hes desperate for help. So desperate that hes going to interrupt this autumnal tour of the forest, where cardinals eat berries that turn their feathers red, white-tailed deer lose their antlers, and wood frogs freeze... Yeah, all of that might be fascinating, but Squirrel needs his nut!

With a funny, exasperated hero like that of The Very Impatient Caterpillar, this meta picture book inspired by real squirrel behavior (caching!) delivers crowd-pleasing laughs as Gray Squirrel searches for his beloved nut and accidentally plants a tree. But this isnt the first lost nut, and it wont be the lastHello, forest!

Hilarious speech-balloon dialogue makes this a dynamic and fun read-aloudand the back of the book includes bonus educational material likeadditional forest facts, a food web diagram, and a bear safety song!

Author Bio

Cassandra Federman spent much of her childhood in Massachusetts tromping through the temperate deciduous forestthough at the time, she just called it the woods. Over the course of her life, she has been many things: a hand model, a wrestler, a manatee rescuer, an actor, and a mystic wood elfbut her favorite so far has been an author-illustrator. Her previous books include This Is a Sea Cow, This Is a Seahorse, which won the ILA Childrens & Young Adults Book Award, and the middle grade graphic novel, Story Spinners.