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A review by bezoar
Girl Versus Squirrel by Hayley Barrett
4.0
I read this book out loud to two small mixed-age groups students in elementary school. The younger students weren't as engaged with this story. I think some of that is because of the vocabulary. Students who know how to use context clues and look at the pictures to find out what's going on in the story have an easier time with words they don't know, but students who did not have those skills weren't as engaged.
I liked the way Pearl invents different ways to keep the squirrel from eating the peanuts, but the "reveal" that the squirrel was a girl felt a bit weird to me. The gender of the squirrel hadn't been a part of the story up until that point. To me the more important information was that the squirrel was a mother and was getting the peanuts for her babies. I would have done those two pages differently, but other than that I liked this book!
I liked the way Pearl invents different ways to keep the squirrel from eating the peanuts, but the "reveal" that the squirrel was a girl felt a bit weird to me. The gender of the squirrel hadn't been a part of the story up until that point. To me the more important information was that the squirrel was a mother and was getting the peanuts for her babies. I would have done those two pages differently, but other than that I liked this book!