Norma wakes up and begins to cook a batch of pancakes. She wants to share them with her friend Belly but because she leaves her cooking to find him the pancakes are burned. As the two friends discuss what to do next they smell something delicious.
"like honey ... it smells like crispy sugar, oil, and a hint of linden flowers."
This smell is coming from a donut van which has parked nearby. Norma and Belly do not have any money but they do have lots of chestnuts. They pop these on the van counter but the human donut seller is horrified and he grabs a water spray bottle and sprays his small animal customers. Norma and Belly are desperate to eat one of those donuts so they devise a very clever plan.
The library I visit each week use date due slips for their books. This is a great way to see the frequency of borrowing for individual titles. Donut feed the Squirrels arrived in the library in May 2021. This is not a large school (around 300+ students) and yet I see this book has been borrowed twenty times.
Awards for Donut Feed the Squirrels:
- 2021 Eisner Honor for Early Reader
- Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020
- Michigan Great Lakes’ Great Books Award 2021-22
- 2021 The Center for Children’s Books Gryphon Award Honor and
- 2020 The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon in Fiction
- The Nerdy Book Club Pick
- Indie Next List
- Junior Library Guild Pick
- Texas Little Maverick Reading List 2020-21
- Cybils Award
- ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List
- ISLN Red Dot Short List 2022-2023
I highly recommend Donut feed the Squirrels. A perfect book for a newly independent reader and a great way to introduce chapters - there are five chapters in this book.
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