Sasquatch and Squirrel

by Chris Monroe, Chris Monroe (Illustrator)

Overview

Deep in the forest, Strawberry the Sasquatch is very happy on her own.

She keeps busy doing all the alone things a Sasquatch does: sneaking, dance moves, foraging, haircare, and more. But one day Nutty, a snack-loving squirrel, comes along. Maybe they can hang out together?

Things don’t exactly go well: Strawberry’s climbing is more like crashing, and Nutty turns out to be terrible at logger pranks. Can these two critters find common ground?

A hilariously charming new story from author and illustrator Chris Monroe, creator of the Monkey with a Tool Belt series!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781728404660
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.31(d)
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

Chris Monroe is an award-winning author, illustrator and cartoonist. Her picture books include Sneaky Sheep, Bug On a Bike and the Monkey With a Tool Belt series, which inspired the Netflix show Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt. Chris is also the author and illustrator of the comic strip Violet Days, which has been in print for more than 20 years. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Chris Monroe is an award-winning author, illustrator and cartoonist. Her picture books include Sneaky Sheep, Bug On a Bike and the Monkey With a Tool Belt series, which inspired the Netflix show Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt. Chris is also the author and illustrator of the comic strip Violet Days, which has been in print for more than 20 years. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

Editorial Reviews

"Told with a humorous touch, and illustrated in a whimsical manner, the story of Strawberry and Nutty's friendship is a charming picture book that says a great deal about bridging differences in the name of good will. Reviewer Rating: 4"—Children's Literature

From the Publisher

2023-02-08
A new friendship goes through some literal growing pains in this woodland episode.

Strawberry the peaceable sasquatch is used to a solitary life of “alone things” like taking walks and making portrait collages of hairy relatives from seeds and berries, but she decides to take up an offer from Nutty the squirrel to hang out together. Little does she suspect that her impulsive buddy’s fondness for climbing, messy pranks, and “snack sneaking” (say that three times) will lead to her falling from an outhouse roof and several trees, not to mention narrow escapes from an irate brown-skinned lumberjack and a marshmallow-baited trap set by “Squatch Watchers.” Next day, scratched and bandaged, Strawberry proposes that the two just watch clouds and maybe make a selfie collage…which suits the similarly battered, still-sticky squirrel just fine. To underscore the tale’s tongue-in-cheek tone, Monroe kits out her shaggy cryptid (who, if only about the face, resembles her Monkey With a Toolbelt) with pink slippers and a shopping basket, comically exaggerates the size difference between her two furry friends, and just for fun has them assemble some oddly familiar looking artworks as sight gags. Divided into panels, with characters communicating in speech bubbles, the book has an appealing graphic-novel vibe. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Plainly the beginning of a beautiful, if ouchy, friendship. (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews