The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Brenner, Barbara

Beavers Beware!

32 pp. | Gareth | December, 1989 | Library ISBN 0-8368-1769-9 $$18.60
1992, Little Rooster

(4) K-3 Bank Street Ready-to-Read series. Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. A young girl is intrigued by the lodge beavers have built on her family's dock. Her angry parents, however, call the game warden, but that night the dock floats downriver during a storm. The family builds a new dock: "only this time--no beavers allowed." Text and illustrations are clear and simple, but the story won't appeal to wildlife fans accustomed to more animal-friendly tales.

Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander