Ereth's Birthday (Poppy, 5)

He is dumpy and grumpy, he is old and bold, underneath his dagger-sharp quills is a warm-blooded heart...It's hard not to be bewitched by this guy, Ereth the porcupine, especially his unique communication style and his adventurous parenthood with three young foxes. The plotting and the dialogue are thumpingly fun, and the father fox is such great entertaining as well. What a wonderful reading time with my 9-year-old daughter this summer!Sometimes life is unpredictable and may not seem to be the way we wanted, but gradually the mysteries will be revealed. Just be patient and smile.

Avi creates such rich characters in this series that you need to read all five of the Poppy stories. Ereth, the porcupine speaks in alliterative phrases, delightfully twisting your tongue as you read alone or aloud. This award winning author continues to create such a wide variety of fiction and historical fiction to invite middle grade readers into adventure after adventure. I recommend all of his books.

My third grader and I LOVE these books! We are on the last one now.

Excellent author!!

Excellent tale of arrogant Ereth the porcupine. Lucky for us this book is one of a series!

I purchased the entire Poppy series by: Avi for my daughter's 9th birthday and she LOVES them! It's the perfect adventures! She reads them out loud to me and I enjoy following along!

I read all 6 books in this series, each as good as the one before. I've never read an Avi book I didn't like including this one. If you've read the 1st 4 you are already familiar with the main character - Ereth. He gets himself in a jam or 2 in this one.

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