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Five Faves: Animals in the City

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We love our quirky animal friends, whether they be our pets, the birds who sing us "good morning," or the beautiful deer that too often cross our roads at inconvenient times. Encountering animals in the city is a fun clash of the natural and the urban. If you enjoy your animal friends, check out these books where they take on the town!

Written by Eric Fan
Illustrated by Dena Seiferling
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2022. Picture Book.

A nocturnal lunch cart drives through the city. Manned by an owl-chef, each night-prowling animal gets a meal whether it be mince pie, a sandwich, or an egg. Owl continues dispensing meals until the sun comes up and he hasn’t forgotten the little street-sweeping mouse.

Written by Hilda Eunice Burgos
Illustrated by Siara Faison
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2024. Intermediate. 133 pages.

Miguel rescues a cat, Lolo, outside his parents’ bodega in Washington Heights. Told through their alternating perspectives, we see Miguel tries to tell his parents he wants to make art instead of joining science club and Lolo tries to keep a threatening cat away from the bodega.

Written by Cam Higgins
Illustrated by Allison 
New York: Little Simon, 2025. Intermediate. 116 pages.

Extra Cheese Scratchy Paws Sniffs-a-Lot, also known as Ratnip, is a rat who lives in a pizza shop. One day while dumpster diving, he finds a cell phone that rings, showing a picture of a person he knows. This leads him on an adventure to return the phone to its rightful owner.

Written by Emily Jenkins
Illustrated by Manuel Preitano
New York: Delacorte Press, 2024. Fiction. 192 pages.

Told in shifting perspectives, four sixth-graders and their dogs who regularly visit a city dog park narrate their lives. One is new and trying to fit in, one’s dealing with anxiety, and two clash at play practice. Their dogs add to the stories with their hijinks getting them—and their owners—into trouble.

By Li Chen
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2024. Comic. 205 pages.

Cat Town’s young detective, Beans, has lost his sleuthing hat! The tabby prowls the city looking for clues and interviewing quirky suspects to find his missing fashion accessory. Will he find his hat before mom calls him home for dinner?
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