A review by octavia_cade
Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane by Victoria Sherrow

informative fast-paced

4.0

I do like these Smithsonian picture books! The illustrations are always reliably good, but even so these are some of the better ones I've seen from them so all credit to Allen Davis there. I really love the autumnal colours on display here - fitting, given that the book is set in autumn as the chipmunk stores food for winter. I think my favourite illustration is the chipmunk in the leaf litter opposite what's either a frog or a toad (I think a toad?). It's not the amphibian that appeals, it's the bright crayon hidden in the leaf litter... in a colour that the artist must have used himself while drawing this!

No chipmunks in NZ, so it's interesting to learn more about them. How much can they really stuff into those little cheek pouches, I wonder?