If You Wake a Skunk

by Carol Doeringer, Florence Weiser (Illustrator)

Overview

Oh-oh! A skunk! What's a pair of campers to do? This laugh-out-loud cautionary tale will have readers cringing as each page is turned. Tension builds as the campers creep closer and tempt fate, dismissing the skunk's warnings. But skunks can be fakers. Does this one have the stink to stank the campers? Title includes back matter about skunk biology and behavior, and supports elementary NGSS units related to animal survival and adaptations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534111721
Publisher:	Sleeping Bear Press
Publication date:	04/15/2023
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,027,895
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	440L (what's this?)
Age Range:	6 - 7 Years

Editorial Reviews

2023-01-25
Two campers narrowly escape an encounter with a skunk.

The rollicking rhymes and second-person address keep the pages turning and the threat level high in this amusing, educational look at what you should do if you come across a skunk. (In case you don’t already know, the answer is universally to retreat!) While the unseen narrator gives prudent advice to the duo and plays up the threat they face as the skunk moves through its warning body language, the two campers, whose facial expressions and own body language reflect their fright, largely fail to heed the advice to get away, instead sticking around until the skunk is balanced atop its front legs, both nose and tail pointed straight at them. The facts woven into the tale are rounded out in the backmatter, which lists some skunk facts, describes their “stink defense,” and gives some resources for learning more. The action plays out against white backgrounds, keeping the focus on the interactions. One camper is brown-skinned with short dreadlocks; the other has tan skin and straight black hair in short pigtails. Share this one-on-one so children can see the hysterical reactions of the snail on each spread. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Sure to provoke giggles even for audiences who already know to avoid skunks. (Informational picture book. 3-7)

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