Kit: The Adventures of a Raccoon

Born in a hollow maple tree, Kit spends his early days hungry, blind, and sleeping, never far from his mother's milk and warmth. But he soon finds himself in the big outdoors, where he and his litter mates learn from their mother to fish and forage. Through play and trial and error, the young raccoons learn the skills needed to survive. When Kit goes off to fend for himself, his life becomes wilder still. Livetrapped after getting into one family's garbage, chased out of a cornfield by trained hounds, Kit survives it all. Eventually he finds a mate and heads off to start a family of his own. This adventure story about an animal already familiar to most children will draw in attentive, nature-loving readers. The true-to-life tale has been researched and vetted by natural history experts and is illustrated with animated, detail-oriented drawings.