Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the hedgehog.

Your pet hedgehog just made a spitball. Is that normal? This book introduces readers to the ins and outs of care for a pet hedgehog. Readers will get information to help them decide if a hedgehog is the right pet for them as well as the how-to's of caring for hedgehogs.

"Engage your earliest readers with these nonfiction animal introductions! In Hedgehogs, emergent readers learn how hedgehogs live in the forest and use their quills to stay safe. Carefully crafted text, high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers. Hedgehogs includes tools for caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such as labels, a table of contents, words to know, index,...

"Meet a new hedgehog friend in the kitchen! A fruit smoothie and wormy plate (don't worry-it's just pasta) inspired by your animal chef's diet make for tasty treats. Cute cookies and delightful dinner rolls shaped like your spiny sous chef look almost too cute to eat. Helpful tips from chef Hedgehog make cooking easy, and a feature with more information about hedgehogs helps young readers learn all about the creatures. It's time to get cooking with...