Gray Squirrel at Pacific Avenue

by Geri Harrington

Book Overview

Children will enjoy this exciting story as Gray Squirrel darts and dashes away from predators while trying to gather up a tasty meal of bird seed and acorns. Reviewed by the Smithsonian Institution... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568991150
• ISBN13: 9781568991153
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Soundprints
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 12.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Suburban animals made exciting and important in an ecosystem

For those of us surrounded by the omnipresent gray squirrel they seem banal and often a pest. But for my inner city Latino children in a bilingual first grade, this book made real the interaction of animals in a suburban neighborhood. They understood how the squirrel interacts with other animals - often stealing their food; how the squirrel helps grow trees by hiding acorns (we learned about acorns the same week). The picture of the squirrel eating acorns was perfect. We learned how birds depend on feeders for their food. The illustrations were lovely and inventive - they especially liked the photo of the squirrel sleeping with his tail over his head for a shade (we acted it out with our hands) and the dog chasing the squirrel and cat. The neighborhood was unfamiliar to them as the housing was very different but they loved the animals. This book was a most positive teaching aide.