She is the author of four other novels- All Alone in the Universe, As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, Nuts to You, and Secret Sisters of the Salty Sea. Lynne Rae Perkins was awarded the Newbery Medal for Criss Cross. The author lives with her family in northern Michigan. Lynne Rae Perkins has also written and illustrated several acclaimed picture books, including Frank and Lucky Get Schooled The Broken Cat Snow Music: Pictures from Our Vacation and The Cardboard Piano. Includes an introduction, epilogue, and footnotes throughout, as well as original exclusive material from the author. will relish the squirrels’ adventures, as well as Perkins’s laugh-aloud illustrations and equally witty footnotes.” Nuts to You is wholly original, funny, lively, and thought-provoking. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and the mysteries of squirrel culture are revealed. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends.

Nuts to You features black-and-white art by the author on every page, as well as exclusive material original to this edition. another completely original and exceptional package from Perkins,” said the Horn Book. How far would you go for a friend? In Nuts to You, the funny and moving illustrated novel by Newbery Medalist Lynne Rae Perkins, two squirrels go very far indeed to save a friend who has been snatched up by a hawk.

Nuts to You by Lynne Rae Perkins