Before I read this book I had never thought about squirrel poetry or what it would be like.
The person who made me think about squirrel poetry was Kate DiCamillo and her latest book is Flora and Ulysses. It has already won the Newbery Medal, it's on the National Book Award Longlist and she's been called a 'master storyteller.' Squirrel poetry can obviously get you a long way. The book is a mixture of normal novel and comic pictures.
Squirrels and Hoovers are not a good mix but in reading, TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. Flora knows just what do do when they get mixed up. Flora saves the squirrel but in doing so makes a mission for her and her friends to stop her mother killing the squirrel, will she manage or will she not?
I think that my favourite bit in the story was the moment when Ulysses the squirrel saved himself. I'm not going to tell you how because that would spoil the story.
Often it it a boy who is the main character but in this book it's different; the main person is an intelligent and caring girl who really loves comics. By the way, squirrel poetry is really good and so is this book!
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