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It features a mother raccoon comforting a child raccoon by kissing its paw. First published by the Child Welfare League of America in 1993, it has been used "to reassure children upset by separation anxiety." [1] Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."
The book also touches on young Sterling's concerns for his older brother Herschel, off fighting in World War I in Europe. The boy reconnects with society through the unlikely intervention of his pet raccoon, a "ringtailed wonder" charmer. The book begins with the capture of the baby raccoon and follows his growth to a yearling.
The raccoon (/ r ə ˈ k uː n / or US: / r æ ˈ k uː n / ⓘ, Procyon lotor), also spelled racoon [3] and sometimes called the common raccoon or northern raccoon to distinguish it from the other species, is a mammal native to North America.
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Image credits: raccoonsfun Technically, raccoons are considered to be pests. They intrude on people’s homes or backyards to find food. They enter homes through chimneys, gaps in roofs, and other ...
The clades leading to coatis and olingos on one branch, and to ringtails and raccoons on the other, separated about 17.7 Ma ago. [14] The divergence between olingos and coatis is estimated to have occurred about 10.2 Ma ago, [14] at about the same time that ringtails and raccoons parted ways.
Cozumel raccoon (P. pygmaeus). Procyon is a genus of nocturnal mammals comprising three species commonly known as raccoons in the family Procyonidae.The most familiar species, the common raccoon (P. lotor), is often known simply as "the" raccoon, as the two other raccoon species in the genus are native only to the tropics and are less well known.