This is the newly re-edited edition of a true-life adventure with a mother raccoon who suddenly gave birth in a suburban house basement. The book walks you through what the author experienced first hand from the time the babies were born to when they outgrew their surroundings. It also speaks about how a growing admiration for the mother raccoon evolved into a trusting and fun-loving adventure along with her six babies.

This book is about the true-life adventure of a raccoon mother who suddenly gave birth in an Ottawa home basement one day. The book takes you through what the author learned about raccoons in general and how her respect and admiration for the mother grew to a trusting and fun-loving adventure with her six babies.

Students will love learning about the way of life of raccoons and the challenges they face as babies and adults. An exciting narrative format supported by fun facts, questions, and activities, tells the story of one of the most adaptable animals on Earth. Raccoons eat almost anything, live in many kinds of habitats, including cities, can climb buildings as well as trees, and are able to change to overcome many challenges. This story follows a raccoon familys nightly adventures in a forest near a suburban community, as they look for food in both their natural habitat and peoples back yards. What other animals will they meet? Readers will be asked to write about their own experiences with these cute but often challenging animals.

This tale introduces young readers to the adventurous life of a raccoon. Born in a hollow maple tree, Kit spends his early days hungry, blind, and sleeping. Yet he soon finds himself in the big outdoors where he and his litter mates learn to fish and forage. Through play and trial and error, the young raccoons learn the skills needed to survive. BandW illustrations.

Do you need a book presenting a fresh perspective for discussion and reinforcement in teaching values to your children? As a parent, use this book to help your child to make better choices and change inappropriate behaviors. Need a book that can inspire devotion, faithfulness, allegiance to God, honesty, and strength for doing what's right? Need a book which can help change inappropriate behaviors, provide encouragement, increase self-worth, honesty, and compassion for others? Does your child have trouble taking responsibility, living his or her life by high principles of life management, or in making good decisions? In manuscript format, the Raccoon Family Adventures has been read and enjoyed by many school children; Adults and children in churches have given it a "thumbs up" for its teachings on life-management as it increases self-esteem and Christ-esteem. A dysfunctional family of raccoons experiences a chain of shocking events, surprises, and experiences which eventually lead them to come into an experience with Christ. The compassionate concern of Squeaky, the field mouse, shows the power of how God can change inappropriate behaviors into appropriate behaviors which are needed in order to live life at its highest and best. Refusing his opportunity for change, a prideful buck ignored the possibility of death and his certain accountability with God.

This book is about the true life adventure of a raccoon mother who suddenly gave birth in an Ottawa home basement one day. The book takes you through what the author learned about raccoons in general and how her respect and admiration for the mother grew into a trusting and fun-loving adventure with her six babies

An industrious young raccoon quickly learns the ways of life alongside his mother in order to survive into adulthood and raise a family of his own.