Perkins, Lynn Rae Nuts
to You, 272 pgs. Greenwillow Books, 2014. $16.99. Language: G; Violence G;
Content: G.
The author of this story meets a squirrel who decides to describe
to her the events that led up to his first bite of peanut butter. He tells her
his tale of adventure in which he is captured by a hawk and falls to a new
portion of the forest. He meets some new
friends, but when his old friends come to save him a catastrophe occurs and all
of the squirrels rush back home to warn their companions of oncoming danger.
This book was such a struggle for me to get through. The author was very set on
portraying the “squirrel” language that it made it difficult to read some of
the names and words that the squirrels were speaking. She also provided a lot
of footnotes to try to add more to the story or elaborate. These notes ending
up convoluting the story and made it difficult to flow through the book. The
premise wasn’t incredibly intriguing to me either.
EL, MS –OPTIONAL. Reviewed
by: Shay, School Librarian
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