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Elliot's Park #1: Saving Mr Nibbles

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Patrick Carman created these stories for his daughter while visiting the real Pioneer Park in Walla Walla, Washington. This first book in the wonderful world of Elliot's Park, is about a great adventure for the squirrels of Elliot's Park. The vast cast of characters including: Elliot the book worm with glasses who loves collared shirts, wide ties and solving problems, Mister Nibbles who is a most unusual squirrel who is introduced in the adventure, Roscoe and Coconut the two dog's from the yellow house across the street who love to chase Elliot and his friends, Scratchy Spurs a former rodeo star squirrel with a cowboy hat, spurs and a stick cane, and Sparkle the stargazer who often gets into trouble with the Owls, and many many others. The book has a cast of characters in the back of the key players from the whole series.

In this story the squirrel's of Elliot's Park, are amazed and incensed when a child receives a squirrel as a present at a birthday party held in the park. Elliot and his friends decide that this squirrel must be liberated. So they have Crash the only flying squirrel in the park follow when the party pack's up. They discover that Mr. Nibbles has been taken to the yellow house across the street. The home of Roscoe and Coconut two ferocious squirrel chasing dogs. Elliot can not think of a way to save Mr. Nibbles, so he visits his friend Scratchy, and comes up with a plan. But can the squirrels of Elliot's Park, leave the park and rescue Mr. Nibbles. Read this story and find out!

These books will captivate children of all ages from 5 to 105. I even read it to my two year old and she stayed captivated by the story. The artwork by Jim Madsen is excellent, and children will love his representations of the adventures of the squirrell's. And as an added bonus there are exercises at the end of the book, to create fun for a family or class. In this book they include:
o Elliot and Chip's Trail Mix (GORP)
o Create Your Own Elliot's Park Adventure
o Sparkle's Starry Night
The book concludes with a preview chapter of the next book The Haunted Hike. Pick up this book by award winning author Patrick Carman for he has created a wonderful world for young readers and for the whole family in these books.

Excellent book! I read most of this with my 6 year old son. He absolutely loved this book and we bought Haunted Hike now to read. My son said it was like Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers-helping people. I agree with the other review-we hope it becomes a series as well! Thanks for the great book!

I picked up this book on a whim at my childrens' book fair. I am so glad that I did. My sons are 9 and 7. They loved the story. I read it to them and did "voices" with the characters. It was fabulous. The author describes the characters well enough that you can really attribute a certain tone and accent to each of them. The book is short but it has a great story line. It was so good that when my mom offered to read something to them while I ran an errand I refused to let her read it to them because I didn't want to miss anything! I highly reccomend it as a read-aloud or for new readers. I am certainly looking forward to the next and hope it will become a series!

This is a great book for kids who don't like to read, who need a "fast" book, or are used to cartoons and TV. The characters are cartoon-y, but there are a lot of pictures and the print is easy to read (lots of space and print isn't too small). There isn't a fully-developed, high-quality level of writing, but the story is fun and kids will love to read it. The book is VERY attractive.

I bought mine in the hardcover edition for $1 at a library sale.