Children's Book of the Week: 17

This week's book is one that Audrey's teacher read to her class one day. She told me all about it when she got home and how much she laughed while Mrs. Marroquin read it to her. Lo and behold, there it was in the next Scholastic Book Order! It's very silly, and I find that the sillier the story, the more my kids want to read it. It's called

The Great Fuzz Frenzy
by Janet Stevens & Susan Stevens Crummel

This is the story of a colony of prairie dogs that, one day, receives a tennis ball in their burrow courtesy of the neighborhood dog. They are immediately curious about the ball and then one of them points out that "it's fuzzy!" Suddenly, they are all quite obsessed by the fuzz and beging tearing it off and playing with it. They start making clothing and silly costumes out of it. Neighboring colonies of prairie dogs hear of the fuzz and come running to get some of it, too. Soon, the ball is picked and picked until the fuzz runs out! All the prairie dogs start stealing fuzz off of each other, and soon they are all fighting. Something a little scary (for the prairie dogs) happens next that sends all the little animals back into their burrow, where they realize what's really important: each other.

And not the fuzz.

It's a really cute book, a very silly premise, but so fun for the kids!

Read more about it (and the awards it has won) here. You can buy one here!