Littletown

This book (52,000 words, 30 stories in 30 chapters, and over 150 pictures) is dedicated to all of you who who will read it with, or to, children you know and love. Go with your child in the LittleTown series on the journey of some small animals to set up their new town far away from humans, where they now can live in peace and safety with each other. Watch as the LittleTowners fight fires, play together, feel terror together, and learn together.You and your kid will sit at the feet of Grace the Librarian, the gentle little deer mouse, as her wise words shape the little ones. Feel her fear as little blind Vola, the flying squirrel, has to learn to fly all over again. Watch an angry Teacher gnaw down tree after tree with his huge beaver teeth to remove mistakes made by the grasshopper mice twins, He and Me. See the brave starnosed mole swept along by the oil in a pipeline, and rule over the court as The Judge. Sit in court as The Judge tries to find out what The Chicago Kid did on Tum-Tum-Hill. Discover how the smart water shrew Pal Silver saves Mrs. Muskrat, who is trapped under water in a cage, from drowning. Read about Bones, the Mole that started counting thousands of dinosaur bones buried in a pit in Bonesburg. Follow Kanga the Kangaroo Rat as he fights a rattlesnake that crept into his burrow.Sit under a tree as Squirt-Squirt, the sensitive skunk, becomes a poet.Discover how the smart, bubbly water shrew Pal Silver saves Ms Muskrat, who is trapped under water in a cage.Laugh with them as they help Mr Packrat bargain for a telephone.And you will learn why the Chicago Kid lost his whiskers in the hospital on Get-Well-Hill.Laugh when The Chicago Kid faces a trial presided over by The Judge.Chuckle at the problem posed by the Never-Movers, and sympathize with Baby Muskrat as she learns about the new world.Plot with the two little voles, Timid Timmy and Timid Tania, to trap a weasel. Visit Chien's Thumbs, the hidden studio of the little prairie dog where his portraits are kept secret for as long as his models want them to be.Listen to The Kid explain the adventures his friend had at the President's White House, and find out why the first pocket gopher born in LittleTown was named Talpo.And you will both wince with the little ones as they are injected on Get-Well-Hill to save them from the plague, laugh with them as they learn to play football with an acorn, and much, much more. I hope you enjoy their adventures! Children up to 12 (perhaps older) will enjoy the tangled webs the LittleTowners weave as they grapple with life in their new home.Glenn Ashton