Once again, Cannon combines an anthropomorphic story with factual endnotes about the wildlife, and the engaging artwork succeeds in making an unappealing creature sympathetic. Many creative projects can come out of this story, such as students creating their own fictional characters and writing about them.) applies her familiar formula to the animals of the African savanna in this rambling tale of a striped hyena who learns about how cruel insults can be. This would be a good book for beginner readers and also for the special education setting, where visual aids are of high importance. The reader is able to understand the progression of the story from the visual cues alone. There are parts of the story where there is no text, just pages of illustrations. The illustrations are incredible in this story. Students could also take note of common themes that Janell Cannon includes in her writing these two book would be a great way to introduce young readers to having 'favorite' authors and exemplifying that if one enjoys a few books from the same author, one may decide to find more books from that same author. Also, since Trupp (a main character) is also the main character of another picture book by Janell Cannon, this would be a great way to have students draw connections from the two stories.

It would be a great book to introduce early readers to these universal themes.

This is a story of working together, not giving up, friendship and appreciation. The group of Fuzzheads find themselves walking with humans in their quest to find the correct ingredients to create the anecdote. Then they began an adventure to find the anecdote to cure Trupp from his condition. Since Little Yau was not yet a fully knowledgeable medicine-woman, she and her friends called for help of the 'wise ones,' which were the well educated elders of the Fuzzheads. She had been studying rigorously to become a 'wise one,' which is a kin to a traditional doctor. Little Yau is an apprentice medicine-woman, who discovers Trupp poisoned by her home.

Much like the story of Trupp, this is a tale of friendship and teamwork. I learned of Little Yau from the book sleeve of the book, Trupp. Once I read Trupp and fell in love with that story, I knew I had to locate Litte Yau to read more about the Fuzzheads. I believe Janell Cannon has two stories about these fictional creatures, called Fuzzheads. Trupp and Little Yau are the same fictional animals and Trupp is a main character in the story of Little Yau. I originally became interested in the book as I had just finished reading Trupp, by Janell Cannon (same author).

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