Books with title Raccoon! Raccoon!

A baby raccoon gets lost and ends up with a family. The children take care of it and slowly get attached to it. The baby raccoon grows older and begins to act like the wild animal it is. Finally, the children are made to understand that the raccoon must ultimately be returned to the wild. It is a difficult thought to bear, but it is the right thing to do.

Raccoons are curious, playful, and sneaky. Some call them masked bandits because they like to steal food from unsuspecting farmers, and sometimes from your trashcans while you sleep. Their sneaky skills have allowed raccoons to flourish, long after Europeans arrived in North America, even though many other animals struggle to survive. Readers will be excited to learn all about raccoon families, habitats, homes, and how they stay alive in the wild.

Raccoons are intelligent and playful by nature and their antics delight young children, in life and in books. Here the author tells, as an easy-to-read story, of an actual experience his family had with a raccoon. Children will enjoy learning about the habits of this lively animal, and of other woodland creatures. Through such study even young children can be helped to grasp the basic ecological idea that animals are essential to human life.