4.0 out of 5 stars
Evokes Creativity About Nature Facing Progress, January 14, 2009
This review is from: A Squirrel's Dilemma (Paperback)
Art Bieri writes about a community of squirrels and their adjustment to change as the squirrel's environment is changed to make way for a community project. Progress forces some squirrels to make a home elsewhere, but there was one squirrel that made a different choice.
Except for the cover and one small black and white picture at the end of the book there are no pictures, so it is a quick story to read. I found it was hard to keep the interest of the younger age children because they wanted pictures, but the older children seemed interested in the story to the end. The ending of the story seemed to leave my group of readers to want to speculate.
A great way to stir writing creativity in children is to not have a resolute ending. Some of the older children added their own ending of what they thought happened to the squirrels.
Reviewer recommends "A Squirrel's Dilemma" to elementary schools, parents and grandparents, and churches.
Reviewed by Jewel Sample, MS; Award-winning author of Flying Hugs and Kisses, also translated: Besos y abrazos al aire (Spanish edition).
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