Squirrel's World

by Lisa Moser, Valeri Gorbachev (Illustrator)

Hello, hello, hello! Meet frenetically helpful Squirrel and his patient animal friends in four funny, engaging stories for the early chapter-book crowd.

Squirrel is a very, very, very good helper! He helps his tree grow, he helps the river flow, and he helps his three best friends, Mouse, Turtle, and Rabbit. He is such a good helper, in fact, that he helps his friends when they don’t even know they need help! It is a lot of work being such a caring squirrel, but there is much to do before sleep, sleep, sleep time. Prepare to fall in love with the utterly endearing — and undeniably exhausting — Squirrel in this sweet and funny chapter book from author Lisa Moser and illustrator Valeri Gorbachev.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals, Fiction, Friendship

48 pages, Hardcover

First published August 28, 2007

About the author

Lisa Moser grew up in the small town of Fairfield, Iowa. "I had a wonderful childhood," says Lisa. "I lived in a neighborhood where lemonade stands were a day's event, the boundaries for hide-and-go-seek were the entire block, and you knew it was time to come home when the streetlights came on."


About this time, Lisa was inspired by her grandma to become a writer. "My grandma and grandpa lived in Florida, and we would write letters every week. But on some golden days, some treasure days, I would go to the mailbox and find a story from my grandma. She'd write the stories, draw the pictures, and bind them up with bright yarn. Reading those stories, my own dream of becoming a children's author began."


Lisa went on to attend The University of Iowa and graduated with a degree in elementary education. After getting married, she moved to Worthington, Ohio where she happily taught reading, writing, and other subjects to fifth graders. Lisa is proud to say that she was never beaten in a footrace by any of her students, although she only raced them once. Wisely, she retired a champion.


When Lisa and her husband moved to Wisconsin and had their daughter, Lydia, Lisa became a stay-at-home mom and pursued her childhood dream of writing.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute book. I like the illustrations. It is sort of a beginning reader, but has smaller type font and fewer pages than most beginning readers. A good crossover silly story for reading aloud together. Squirrel has a hard time making friends due to his over exuberance, but he is all heart and in the end finds a way to be a real friend to turtle and rabbit.

[Alana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I kept being reminded of Over the Hedge and the crazy squirrel on caffeine. I couldn't help but read anything squirrel said at a much faster pace than the other animal characters. The little chapters were cute and my toddler seemed to enjoy the energetic character.

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

An enthusiastic squirrel can be a nuisance to his friends, but also really caring and helpful too.

[Caitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The preschoolers think it was hilarious

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt 100% insane reading this out loud to my 4-year-old.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute story.

[Joy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Both of these squirrel books by Lisa Moser seem to repeat lots of words in a way that doesn’t bring value IMO.

[Spencer E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Squirrel's World is a very good book because it is so funny! Squirrel is an exciting character because he has a lot of energy. He is hyper! Chapter one was about Squirrel always trying to be helpful. In this chapter Squirrel is helping Mouse gather food but gathers too much for a small mouse. Chapter two was about how Squirrel wanted to play a game with Turtle. Turtle was too slow and Squirrel was too fast until they played Hide and Seek. It was perfect because Turtle could hide and fall asleep. Squirrel could run around trying to find Turtle. Chapter three was about Squirrel helping Rabbit get a lily pad from a pond. Rabbit wanted the leaf to use it as an umbrella. He does not like to get wet. Squirrel got Rabbit wet two times when he tried to get the leaf with a stick. Rabbit fell off a log into the water. Finally, in Chapter four Squirrel went to see all of his friends to say good night. He woke up Mouse. He tried to help Tutle go to sleep. Turtle slept all day so he was not tired. Squirrel gave Rabbit a firefly because he was scared of the dark. I loved this book. It was fantastic. I learned that it can be fun to help friends.

[EDUC535 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewed by J Broten

Squirrel wants to help his friends, Mouse, Turtle, and Rabbit. Squirrel wants to help his friends, even when they don’t ask for it. Squirrel is positive, caring, energetic, and helpful. After he helped all of his friends during the day and it was time for bed he realized he forgot to say goodnight to them. He goes back to each of his friends to say goodnight.
This book would be great as a transitional chapter book or a read aloud. Throughout the book squirrel repeats words 3 times in a row. The illustrations are inviting and funny. This book could be used as a play for students to act out. Students could research forest animals and continue to write how squirrel would help them.

[The Library Lady · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is described as an "early chapter book", but it can't seem to make its mind up as to what it is.
Squirrel with his habit of repeating words "hello,hello,hello", "got to go, got to go, got to go" reminds me of a Dick and Jane reader,yet the vocabulary is more like that of an older child's book or a complicated picture book. And the storylines read like something out of "Frog and Toad".

I'm sure this book will be enjoyed by those who read it, but I'm not sure if it will find its intended audience.
Bbecause I'm not sure who the intended audience is...

[Mandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Squirrel is full of energy and cheer as he sets out to go, go, go help his friends Mouse, Turtle, and Rabbit. Lucky for them Squirrel is there to help Mouse gather food, Turtle to think of an exciting game, and Rabbit to retrieve a stranded leaf. Squirrel’s help is not at all what his friends wished for, but they find it hard to say no to their caring friend. Although Squirrel tires his friends from all of his "help," young readers will not tire of seeing Squirrel zip about showing others that he is a good, good, good friend!

[Jennifer C · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book is fantastic,because its about a squirrel that helps 3 of his frinds,the names of his frinds are mice,tirtel,raddit.He helps mice to colect corn,and tirtelto play with him,and he helped raddit pick a lile pad so he wod'nt get wet.At the end he gose and say good night to mice,tirteland rabbit.The genre of this book is fiction because the squirrel,mice,tirtel and rabbitcan't talk .I wonder wy dose squirrel help his frinds?.I want to remember this book because it talks about a squirrel trying to help his friends.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Squirrel is eager and energetic as the day begins. Today he decides to help three of his friends. He helps mouse get food, plays hide and seek with turtle and helps rabbit overcome his fear. Squirrel and his friends then end the day with an energetic good night.

A easy chapter book for the beginner chapter readers. The book is fun and paced well as young readers are learning new words.

(Texas Bluebonnet, 2010)

[Clemente M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is squirrel book this is a book that you will lagh all day. It's about this squirrel that is helpfull he helps the mice get food. They juped on te turtle because he was sleep all day so they wake him up. this book is fantasy because the animals talk. wat i want toremember is when i help people. I half shema for when i act like a squirrel. I recomend this book to every body.I wonder if squirrel is going to ask the mice to help him on something?

[Rodolfo A.]

This book is about four friends called squirrel,mouse,turttle,rabbit.
Squirre was playng a lot with his friend but he wasn't tire.I like
when they playd because that remind me when I playd with my friends.
When I got this book I wanted to read it because I knew that it going
to be fun readined because I saw the tittle.This book is fantisia
because there were talking animals.When it was night
they were happy by them self and they went to asleep.

[Melki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Squirrel has more energy than a toddler hopped up on Twinkies and Coca-Cola. He really, REALLY wants to help his friends, but sometimes he goes a little too far. Surprisingly, when sleepy-time rolls around, Squirrel proves to be a true helper.

I LOVE the illustrations by Valeri Gorbachev!

[Roxanne Hsu Feldman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a joyous and gentle story of Squirrel whose enthusiasm sometimes brings a bit of headache for his friends -- but you can see that they all still really enjoy his friendship. The language is simple but full of energetic rhythm. Children will recognize themselves or a friend or two in Squirrel and the soft toned illustrations evoke the sense of coziness and comfort. Really wonderful.

[Amy Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! It's hard to tell if it is a reader or a bigging chapter book but I would lean towards having it as a reader. Squirrel has so much energy that he is always running around, repeating things three times, and trying to help his friends but causing more trouble then actually helping. This is one of the funniest readers I've read in a while.

[babyhippoface · Rating 4 out of 5]

Squirrel, squirrel, squirrel! He's a funny, funny, funny little critter! In all of his rushing around and wanting to help, squirrel manages to mess things up for Mouse, Turtle, and Rabbit, though he never even seems to notice. And he's so darn cute the whole time, nobody can stand to tell him off.

Clever little book, perfect for newly-independent readers.

[Raquel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ridiculously cute book about a hyper-active squirrel who just has to do everything. He meets with his friends Mouse, Turtle and Rabbit and meddles in their lives. But he means well and in the end, they are all appreciative of having a thoughtful friend like Squirrel.

My signed copy is a treasured item in my library.

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really? I have to promote this as one of the "best" books next year? A bit of a grin at the story with the squirrel and turtle playing Hide-and-Go-Seek. And that's at best.

If you're in the mood for a talking animal story Avi's The End of the Beginning is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better. At least in my humble opinion.

[Walter F. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is fantasy. It`s about a squrrel that wants to help all of his friends. This book reminds me of the time I was helping my friends. Have you read this book before? If you had I hope you liked it. What I want to remember about this book is that helping is a good thing. I recomend this bbok to all the people that like helping.

[Denis S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This Fantasy book is amazing because it's
funny and I like to laugh alot.Is about a busy squrriel that tryies to help a mouse, a turtles and a bunny.Maybe I have schema just because I like to help others like the squrriel. I wonder why the squirrels talk
with the same word twice.I want to remember you can always help others.
I want to recommand to everyone here.

[Katherine E · Rating 4 out of 5]

This fantastic fantasy is about a small heplful squirrel goes and trys to help his friends mouse,rabbit,and turtle to be ready for the whole day.First he asked mouse if he needed help and mouse said "yes".Second of all he went to turtle and asked him for help and turtle said "yes" too.Last of all he went to rabbit and asked for help and he said "yes".

[Andrea P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This genre of this book is fantasy because there are talking animals.The book is about a squirrel that want's to help animals and play but he does not do the thing's good ,but at the night the squirrel help's some of his friend's and says good night.My schema whet this book is that when I help people.I recommend this book to people that like helping some people

[Mya.s · Rating 5 out of 5]

this boook is fanasty because they are talking animals. this book is about a squirrel that helps his friends butsome times he messes up.I have helped my friends before but I have all ways messed up.I wonder why squirrel repeats what he says?I what to remeamber that when that squirrel picked food for mouse.I would want to recommend this boook to beyonc'e because she is a nice friend.

[Yeimy G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The genre of squirrel's world is fantasy because the animals dont talk.Squirrel wakes up everybody to saw good night to them.I always wake up my mom and dad to say good night and they get mad whith me.I want to remember the time my mom awoke everybody up because the saws fell down and it made a lots of noice.i like to recomend this book to all the children that like all kind of animals.

[Natgarcia2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think that squrrel's world is fantasy because it has talking animals.It is about a squrrel that try's to help his friend's but his friend's don't know that he is going to make a mes.My schema is that I make a mes to.My question is why does squrrel want to help?I want to remember that squrrel helped his friend's I want to recommend this book to my family.

[Diana R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The genre of the book is realistic ficton because he helps his friends. My quick retelling is that squirrel's world is always busy.He is always in the modd for fun . My shema is that i always help my mom and dad.Why does squirrel help his friends?What i want to remember is what squirrel always says help three times. I would recomend this book to a person who loves to help people.

[Elizabeth C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book I am reading is Squirrel World by Lisa Moser.The genre is fantasy because animal can not talk.I will gave it 5 stars.I have smhema and it is when I saw a squirrel.I have a quesdtion, where is they mother?I want to rumber the book because it is funny.I would recmend this book to Mrs.Yegge because we have a tutle in our class room.