title: About Rodents: A Guide for Children
author: Cathryn Sill
description: Kindergarten-Grade 4This attractive volume succeeds on many levels. Simple sentences introduce various types of rodents with vocabulary and grammar suitable for beginning readers or reading aloud. A detailed afterword provides fuller descriptions for older readers looking for information for reports. And the distinguished full-page watercolor plates of the rodents in the wild will have universal appeal. One picture with particular charm shows a white-throated woodrat collecting a small silver key and whisking it away to its nesta symbol of the close link between rodents and humans. This is a fine entry in the Sills's series and is perfect for collections that are looking for quality nonfiction about a resilient family that is so much more than mice and rats.<i>Kara Schaff Dean, Walpole Public Library, MA</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Dear mouse friends,
  
  
  welcome to the
  
  
  
  
  
  STONE AGE!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Welcome to the Stone Age . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  and the world of the cavemice!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Capital: Old Mouse City
  
  
  
  
  
  Population: We’re not sure. (Math doesn’t exist yet!) But besides
  
  
  cavemice, there are plenty of dinosaurs, way too many  saber-toothed
  
  
  tigers, and ferocious cave bears — but no mouse has ever
  
  
  had the courage to count them!
  
  
  Typical Food: Petrified cheese soup
  
  
  National Holiday:  Great Zap Day,
  
  
  which celebrates the discovery of fire. Rodents
  
  
  exchange grilled cheese sandwiches on this holiday.
  
  
  National Drink: Mammoth milkshakes
  
  
  Climate:  Unpredictable, with
  
  
  frequent meteor showers
  
  
  
  
  
  cheese
  
  
  soup
  
  
  
  
  
  Seashells of all shapes
  
  
  
  
  
  and sizes
  
  
  
  
  
  money
  
  
  
  
  
  The  basic unit of  measurement is based on
  
  
  the length of the tail of the leader of
  
  
  the village. A unit can be divided into a
  
  
  half tail or quarter tail. The leader is
  
  
  always ready to pre