The Island of the Skog (1973)

Not my favorite Steven Kellogg book, but still cute. :) ( )

I can use this book to show the impportance of team work. How important is not anticipate events and get in panic. Also has a good academic vocabulary.

A group of mice decide to sail away to sea and escape the stressful city life of being hunted down by cats and dogs. They reach the Island of Skog and fear what they don't know about the Skog. Both theirs and the Skog's imaginations go wild with fear leading them to act in ways that are harmful. This book has a rich vocabulary of words including narrow escape, general, commander-in-chief, declared, ignoring, harbor, bravely, tanned their pelts, compass, discovered, iceberg, North Pole, captain, business, supplies, convinced, suddenly, freedom, murmurs, cannonballs, waded, cautiously, enormous, footprint, stumble, bait, aloft, volunteer, sand dune, shadowy figure, confessed, plunged, flapping, orchestra and national anthem. ( )

I felt that this book was very well written. It was also cute and silly the way it was written from the perspective of mice. I loved the moral behind the story and the pictures really made it come alive. ( )

When Jenny and her other mice friends decide they want to move away to a more peaceful place, they finally settle, after sailing, to the Island of the Skog. But, what they find when they get there is this island is only inhabited by the Skog itself, a terrifying creature to these little mice. When the mice battle with the skog over who gets to live on the island, the mice discover that the skog is not a big scary creature after all and they all end up living on the island happily together. ( )