Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
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Our Friend Hedgehog: A Place to Call Home (Our Friend Hedgehog series)
Lauren Castillo
Illustrator: Lauren Castillo
Ages: 6+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-1-5247-6674-0
Keywords: friends, hibernation, autumn, forts, early reader chapter book
When Hedgehog meets creatures just like herself, she learns that she's meant to hibernate. But will she choose to leave old friends behind? Colorful illustrations of the natural world.