The eight bumbling but loveable guinea pig friends are back in their second seasonal storybook It's filled with ten stories accompanied by one-hundred black and white illustrations. Each one contains at least one flower to look for It's fall, and Violet's mother takes the young guinea pigs on a nature walk. Violet decides to guide the tour, leading to an interesting discovery when she gets to the cattails. And when Percival's father says he's making "mammoth alterations" to the guestroom, Percival's friends are excited to think that they might get to meet a real, live woolly mammoth. Aren't...

Summer is almost over, school is about to start, and Caroline feels like she doesn't have anything really exciting to share about her summer. Sure, she got a wonderful guinea pig, and she went camping with her family. But she didn't do anything big like climbing a mountain. So she decides she has to make or invent something . . . and soon Meanwhile, two of her friends seem to have no trouble thinking of things to create. Written in journal style with illustrations based on how the author drew as a child, the Caroline's Cavy series presents young readers with a pair of believable and...