"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to porcupine through simple, predictable text and related photos"-- Provided by publisher.

Porcupines are brown, prickly, and climb trees. Readers explore life in a group of porcupines inside the pages of this educational and enjoyable book. When a group of porcupines gets together, they're called a prickle. Porcupines often have a bad reputation as dangerous creatures, but they usually just want to be, left alone. Thanks to numerous eye-catching photographs, readers get closer to porcupines than ever before. They also learn fascinating...

Spike's baby porcupine quills have hardened into sharp, "ouchy" points - and he is not impressed. But his friend Rupert convinces him that "quills are the BEST"--especially when a hungry bear finds the two friends in the forest and wants to eat them for his mid-day snack!

"Butterfly wakes up while Porcupine is having breakfast, and Porcupine tries to explain what it means to be nocturnal and Butterfly considers the advantages of a nighttime life while trying to get back to sleep"-- Provided by publisher.

Explores the physical characteristics and behavior of the porcupine, which has several interesting defense mechanisms.

When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.

A little porcupine just wants a hug, but all the other animals shy away from his prickly spikes--except for a snake.

Elmore is a porcupine desperate to make friends. But it is hard to seek closeness with others when you re covered with spikes that shoot off your back every so often. Elmore suffers rejection and heartbreak, but the goodness of his forest community ultimately shines through as the animals find a way to connect with this prickly bundle of love.

A child figures out the best way to hug a porcupine as he watches his friends hug other animals.

Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.