Cyril Squirrel Finds Out About Love

34 Pages·2016·1.422 MB·English

by  Evans, Jane

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With a notebook and a map, Cyril embarks on a quest to find out about love.
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Helping children to learn about the ways that love can look, sound or feel, this heart-
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warming picture book shows some of the many different forms that love, friendship
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explore questions about love with children.
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Jane Evans is a trauma parenting specialist, international U
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foster carer, a domestic violence parenting worker, a registered
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Coach. She is also the author of How Are You Feeling Today
Baby Bear? Exploring Big Feelings After Living in a Stormy
Home, Kit Kitten and the Topsy-Turvy Feelings: A Story About
Parents Who Aren’t Always Able to Care and Little Meerkat’s
Big Panic: A Story About Learning New Ways to Feel Calm,
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Jane Evans
Illustrated by Izzy Bean
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www.jkp.com
COVER DESIGN: EMMA CARROLL

Cyril
Squirrel
Jane Evans
Illustrated by Izzy Bean
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
Cyril Squirrel was often busy looking for nuts, sorting them into
sizes and chatting with his friends.
Cyril was also often busy wondering. He wondered about
things like, ‘How does the sky stay up? Do birds fly upside down
when I’m not looking?’
The thing he wondered about most was love: ‘What is love? Can
I find it and keep it? Do I need it?’
Can you find a special heart-shaped nut hidden somewhere on
every page? Do you think Cyril will spot it too?
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Cyril Squirrel was so curious about love he decided to write a list
of questions to ask his friends about it:
Q.1 What is love?
Q.2 Do you like love?
Q.3 Do you know where I can find love?
What would your answers to Cyril’s questions be?
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Cyril asked Carrie Crow, Dan Deer, Ramon Rat and Dafiya
Dormouse his questions about love. They all looked thoughtful
and then puzzled. They weren’t sure what the answers were, so
Cyril felt even more confused.
Finally, Dafiya said, ‘Why don’t you go and look for it?’
All the animals nodded and agreed so Cyril decided to do
just that!
Where do you think Cyril should go to look for love?
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Early the next day, Cyril had a quick squirrel wash and packed
some nuts, a map and a notepad to write down what he
discovered along the way. Cyril left a note on his tree:
‘Gone away to find out
what love is, back soon.’
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