Squirrel In Winter

An engaging search-and-find book that will have young children looking for squirrel and friends and learning about colors at the same time!

A young squirrel questions his friends to learn what they do to stay warm during the long, cold winter.

Squirrels wrestle. Squirrels leap. Squirrels climb. Squirrels sleep. If you followed a squirrel for a day, what would you see? Climbing branches, storing seeds, making homes in tree holes, and maybe even flying! Acclaimed nature writer April Pulley Sayre's lyrical text, paired with Steve Jenkins's stunning art, offers a glimpse into this fascinating world. Discover different kinds of squirrels as the scamper, eat, and—finally—sleep.

It's a fall day in a grassy field. A thirteen-lined ground squirrel dives into its burrow. The small animal makes a bed of grass, curls up into a little ball, and lays down to hibernate. It will stay snug in its burrow for six months, waiting out the cold winter. In this dramatic and colorful book, beginning readers will learn all about where thirteen-lined ground squirrels go in the winter and the amazing ways they survive including not eating for several months. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful design, and exquisite photos are sure to delight and engage emergent readers.

Publisher description

Squirrel, Hedgehog, and Bear have never seen it snow, so when Deer predicts an early snowfall, they attempt to stay awake to see the snow.

Papers from a symposium on the endangered Mt. Graham red squirrel, called in response to the building of an observatory on the mountain by the University of Arizona, offers a comprehensive picture of the ecological conditions and the impacts of natural and man-mad changes on the squirrel and its mountain home.