Critters: Adventures in Wildest Suburbia

by A.B.C. Whipple

We met at the foot of the stairs. That is to say, he paused in his stroll long enough to fix me with a beady eye of disdain before waddling on to his destination -- which I did not stop to find out. There are eleven steps into our cellar, and I touched about three of them on my way upstairs to report to my wife that there was a skunk in the basement. "You don't have to shout," she said. Clearly she did not appreciate the gravity of the situation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312104456
• ISBN13: 9780312104450
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

backyard nature-lovers, unite!

What an incredible book, I read it in 2 sittings, and missed it in between. For anyone who loves the outdoors, but has not been able to view much more than whatever appears out of the local shrubbery, this is the book for you!!! (Also for anyone who just loves animals). The habits, quirks, characterisitcs and even threat or endangerment to the inhabitants of almost every neighborhood: squirrel, skunk, deer, rabbit and others!!!! Actual stories about people's encounters with these animals, as well as a little information about how they are thriving as we expand our homeland into what was once there.