Illustrations by Deborah Hocking
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2021
80 pages
ISBN: 9780358106319
When young readers open this book, they will be enthralled by the map of The Whole Wide World with its meadows, mountains, Little Stream, the old footbridge, and the burrow where Sydney the skunk and Taylor the Hedgehog live under Miss Nancy's potting shed. It's a warm place where Sydney is happy to live, but Taylor has Big Ideas!
Taylor convinces Sydney to help him "launch an expedition." Even though it's scary and they might meet strangers, the two friends set off into The Whole Wide World.
They leave all their food at home, so they decide to hunt since they are wild animals, after all. After a comic meeting with hilarious frogs, the two are trapped by a barking dog. Taylor being a hedgehog rolls into a ball which excites the barking dog, Sydney has to save his friend and together they find their way home hitching a ride in the back of Miss Nancy's car.
Sydney and Taylor are magical and their relationship is endearing!
Young readers will ask you to read this book again and again, It is ONE picture book I'm keeping for my BEST PICTURE BOOKS of the last few years.
If you can only buy one book for a kid, buy this one.
HIGHLY, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED early chapter book. Grades K-4.
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