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Gravett, Emily

Meerkat Mail

32 pp. | Simon | September, 2007 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4169-3473-8 $17.99

(2) K-3 Needing a break from his annoying siblings, meerkat Sunny leaves his Kalahari Desert home to visit extended family in different locales. He sends home postcards, cleverly inset as lift-the-flaps, through which Gravett neatly incorporates facts about meerkats, mongooses, and their habitats. Sunny eventually realizes there's no place like home and returns a wiser mammal with a new appreciation for family.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2008