Through the Trees. Squirrels Play With Me

Hi I’m a little boy who goes to the woods most weeks with my parents. While my mommy gets our picnic ready, I like to play with my friends the animals.

Today I’ve been playing with squirrels, we had great fun climbing trees and running around. Then the squirrels got hungry and took me to a secret spot where they had hidden their nuts. We all had one, only I couldn’t open mine and smallest squirrel rolled over laughing.

Then they took me to a big tree to climb.

“I can’t climb that, it’s too big for me to climb”.

“Just follow me” said baby squirrel.

Before I realised it, I was sitting on the top of the tree looking out across all the trees and I could see other animals running around. I decided that I would play with other animals next time and see the squirrels again.

Jackie Burns is a lady in her 60s who has a young grandson who has inspired her to write this book. The author has been around young children all her life and could never imagine life without them. Children’s imaginations are the most exciting, either playing with their toys or outside playing with animals real or imaginative.

The author is trying to be that child playing on their own in the woods with different animals in each book. Woods can be very interesting and exciting to the young, it can also make them feel like they are big boys and girls by climbing trees, finding things and seeing the animals that roam the woods.