Flat Squirrel

by Fiona Faith Ross

Talking Animals Whacky stunts Cross the road or die trying

A cautionary tale of meanies and team players, junk food and donuts and finding your real friends, for kids, adults and grown-ups who never grew up.

Somewhere in New England, when loggers cut down the beech trees of Squirrel Wood, our brave flying squirrel Duggan goes on a quest to find nuts. Winter’s coming and those stores won’t fill themselves. Dodging big trucks to cross the highway, he meets a bunch of animals arguing over food in their hut. Disabled groundhog Lilian, beavers Mr and Mrs Kennedy and Scurvy the magpie, give Duggan a frosty welcome, but things take a turn for the worse when hillbilly gophers arrive.

Duggan wants to get home, but everyone’s gotta eat and egged on by the impulsive gophers, Duggan gets led down a sweet and dangerous path to donuts that ends at the meanest junk-food junkie of all, Gross Daisy. Will she send him packing? Will he get back to his tribe before all his friends starve?

197 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 12, 2018

About the author

Full time copywriter, fiction and screenwriter. I live amongst the witches, spirits and ghouls of the UK's south coast.

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Reviews

[Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok. Fast foods aren't healthy. Got it. I guess it might make a fun read for 3rd or 4th grade kids. I got drawn into the story easily enough. I love squirrels and thought this might be a good one for the kiddos in my family who also enjoy squirrels. Flying squirrels are even better! Then the fast food shows up and eveyone is getting out of shape. *sigh* shouldn't feed wildlife junk. Or maybe it's meant for humans and we shouldn't eat junk. Oh, well. it's an alright story, not just one I'd grab for the kids. Sorry. I'd be willing to bet a bunch of kids, and their care givers will delight in it.
I received a Kindle ARC in exchange for a fair review from Netgalley.

[Carmen Radtke · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of all, I adore squirrels. I also love books that cross over from children’s entertainment to books I can still enjoy as an adult, and Fiona Faith Ross’s easy writing style allows just that. A fun read!

[Roy Davis · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was excited to get this after reading all the rave reviews; but the promise of a wonderful story soon faded. I read the whole book; though, it was a struggle to finish it. The storyline starts out with great potential but at Chapter 3, it starts to become mundane. Timeline of events and passage of time is confusing. It goes on and on with excruciating detail of bakery equipment and shelving, interior of buildings and vehicles to ad nauseum.

It was disappointing to have the "how" humans and animals can talk to and understand each other explained in a very convenient and amateurish way. Also, these animals get into unbelievable life-and-death situations to just have a human or other animal species, in the nick-of-time, save them -- again contrived.

I Had a lot of "Why didn't someone do this to help the protagonist?" or "There's no way in his condition he could be doing what he's doing.”

The word "shuck" is misused. Something is shucked off, not shucked on.

But majority people give it 5 stars and raves, which I don't understand.

[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute story with lots of action. I especially liked the gopher whack-a-mole scene.