Saturday, January 24, 2009

A Winter for Leo by Nicole Leroux


Leo is a member of a family of flying squirrel trapeze artists. He is small for his age and has a crooked paw which makes being an acrobat difficult at times. In the grand final show of the season, he loses his grip and falls off the trapeze, ruining the show. Everyone is angry at him so he runs away. He hopes his family will come after him, and when they don’t, he wanders away into the forest where he becomes lost. Eventually he finds a door in a tree. It leads to the underground home of a near-sighted mole couple who kindly take him in.
Winter is fast approaching, so Leo must stay with the couple in their wonderfully cozy burrow. They feed and clothe him and offer him a comfortable bed. Over the winter months he learns valuable truths about himself and about others.

5 comments:

  1. What literary genre would this book be??

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  2. This book could be classified as Animal Fiction, Fantasy or Humor. Are you planning on using it for your genre study?

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  3. Nothing like killing two birds with one stone! Good on ya.

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