Energetic squirrel is “busy busy busy” gathering food for Mouse, playing games with Turtle, helping Rabbit stay dry in a storm. Squirrel is full full full of desire and good intentions, but he’s so enthusiastic that he often doesn’t pay attention to what his friends really want. Luckily for Squirrel, his irrepressible spirit is met by patience and goodwill among his friends. And luckily for his friends, Squirrel can come through when it really counts in Lisa Moser’s fun fun fun and buoyant chapter book for beginning readers, winningly illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev. (Ages 4–7)

Hello, hello, hello! Meet frenetically helpful Squirrel and his patient animal friends in four funny, engaging stories for the early chapter-book crowd.

Squirrel is a very, very, very good helper! He helps his tree grow, he helps the river flow, and he helps his three best friends, Mouse, Turtle, and Rabbit. He is such a good helper, in fact, that he helps his friends when they don’t even know they need help! It is a lot of work being such a caring squirrel, but there is much to do before sleep, sleep, sleep time. Prepare to fall in love with the utterly endearing — and undeniably exhausting — Squirrel in this sweet and funny chapter book from author Lisa Moser and illustrator Valeri Gorbachev.