She and another friend, Chai, set out to find Jed.īut where Jed lands, there is a threat to the trees. She sees that he falls near the third giant frozen spider web along the buzzpaths (utility wires). Fortunately for Jed, his best friend, TsTs, is in a treetop, sees the hawk snatch him, and sees him fall, faraway. However, Jed lands in a realm far from his home.

Because it is so hard to do when your situation is not relaxing.īut Jed concentrated and completely relaxed his muscles - like the great Houdini escaping a straitjacket - and he slipped like water* through the distracted hawk's talons. It was a technique from the ancient squirrel defensive martial art of Hai Tchree, not well known because it doesn't work most of the time. So for the moment, the best bet might just be to search for “Shubhendu Sharma TED talk how to grow a tiny forest anywhere.”Īnd here is a link to a blog post I made with a variety of squirrel and acorn-related activities.For an instant, the hawk, scanning for mice, eased his grip, ever so slightly.Īnd in that instant, Jed relaxed his muscles. Okay, I’m having trouble getting the video to embed. For starters, here is a really interesting 4:22 TED talk video by Shubhendu Sharma on “How to grow a tiny forest anywhere.” I hope to put lots more activities here in the months to come. I hope you have a lot of fun reading it, too!ĪTTENTION, ATTENTION! I made a little video about this book, which is right here. There’s a story - a story about friendship and courage and adventure and danger.

Of course, there’s more to this book than pictures. I have three big bulletin boards in my studio, and I pin drawings up on them as I do them: Here’s how he looks in the drawings in the book:īit by bit, the drawings piled up.

I decided one squirrel could wear clothing, of a sort. I wanted the drawings to be sort of cartoon-y, graphic novel-y:Īlso, it wasn’t going to be the kind of book where the squirrels wore clothing, so it took me a little while to work out how to distinguish one squirrel from another: I have drawn lots of people, and a fair number of dogs, but I had only drawn squirrels a couple of times. A few weeks went by, and it still made me laugh, so I started making up a little story. Where did it come from? A few years ago, I was working on another project when the phrase “the squirrel who cried wolf” popped into my head. I’m publishing this page of the website on August 26, 2014, the official release date for the book, but it’s a work-in-progress and I hope to add more to it over time. Well, four main squirrels, and a bunch of others. Nuts to You is a middle-grade (ages 8-12) novel an adventure story about a squirrel.

Nuts to you perkins