Scaredy Squirrel

the First Book In The Scaredy Squirrel Series Is A Comical Story Of An Endearing Squirrel Who Learns What Can Happen When He’s Brave Enough To Take A Risk. publishers Weekly it's An Indication Of How Well Watt (leon The Chameleon) Knows Her Helicopter-parented Audience That She's Able To Turn The Phrase Antibacterial Soap Into A Bona Fide Punchline. Fearing Attack By Martians, Sharks, Poison Ivy, Killer Bees, Tarantulas And/or Germs, Scaredy Squirrel Decides He'd Rather Stay In His Safe And Familiar Tree Than Risk Venturing Out Into The Unknown. But Just In Case Something Goes Awry, This Most Anxious Rodent Also Has An Extensive Emergency Kit That Includes Sardines (to Distract The Sharks), The Aforementioned Antibacterial Soap And A Parachute. Then One Day, Scaredy's Unvarying And Admittedly Boring Routine Is Thrown For A Loop (it's The Emergency Kit's Fault), And He Discovers He's A Flying Squirrel-an Epiphany So Momentous That It Garners The Book's Only Gatefold Spread. Will Scaredy's Life Be Changed Forever Now That New Vistas Have Opened Up To Him? Well, Sort Of. Watt Largely Dispenses With Conventional Visual Storytelling; Instead, She Tells The Hero's Story Through A Series Of Boldly Graphic And Endearingly Goofy Charts And Diagrams (one Outlines The Anxious Rodent's Top Secret, Four-option Plan For Exiting The Tree In Case Of Emergency). Funny In Their Own Right, The Pages Also Spoof All The Sincerely Inane Worksheets That Are The Staple Of Elementary School Homework. Youngsters Will Go Nuts Over This One. Ages 4-8. (mar.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. Scaredy Squirrel never leaves his nut tree. It's way too dangerous out there. He could encounter tarantulas, green Martians or killer bees. But in his tree, every day is the same and if danger comes along, he's well-prepared. Scaredy Squirrel's emergency kit includes antibacterial soap, Band-Aids and a parachute. Day after day he watches and waits, and waits and watches, until one day ... his worst nightmare comes true! Scaredy suddenly finds himself out of his tree, where germs, poison ivy and sharks lurk. But as Scaredy Squirrel leaps into the unknown, he discovers something really uplifting ... Meet Scaredy Squirrel, a squirrel who never leaves his nut tree because he's afraid of the unknown "out there." But then, something unexpected happens that may just change his outlook. Scaredy Squirrel is afraid to leave his nut tree because of all the dangers, but one day a bee invades Scaredy's nest and he leaps into the unknown