Established in 2018 – as World Porcupine Day or as National Porcupine Appreciation Day, it’s the perfect day to celebrate and learn more about these distinctive rodents.
The porcupines found in North and South America are good climbers and spend much of their time in trees. Some even have prehensile (gripping) tails to aid in climbing. The North American porcupine is the only species that lives in the U.S. and Canada, and is the largest of all porcupines.
Other porcupine species live in Africa, Europe, and Asia. These animals usually live on the ground and can inhabit deserts, grasslands, and forests.
Known for their quills the porcupine’s body is covered with about 30,000 of them. Each quill has at its tip about 700 to 800 overlapping scales or barbs that enable the quill to readily penetrate the body of its victim. Porcupines cannot shoot their quills, but they do detach readily when touched. Quills are replaced continuously, taking just several months to grow one back.
Books in the library to celebrate the porcupine:
• A Porcupine Called Fluffy by Helen Lester Lynn Musinger
• Duck, Duck, Porcupine! by Salina Yoon
There are three books in this series about Big Duck, Little Duck and Porcupine.
• Mine, Mine, Mine! Said the Porcupine by Alex English & Emma Levey
• I Love Cake! Starring Rabbit, Porcupine and Moose by Tammi Sauer & Angie Rozelaar
• Porcupines by Victoria Blakemore
• How Do You Hug a Porcupine? by Laurie Isop & Gwen Millward
• Valentine the Porcupine Dances Funny by Derrick Brown & Jenny Lewis
• No Hugs for Porcupine by Zoe Waring (Hug a Porcupine Day is 24th October)
• Hugs From Pearl by Paul Schmid
• Perfectly Percy by Paul Schmid
• Mr Prickles: An Quill-Fated Love Story by Karen LaReau and Scott Magoon
• Pins and Needles by Stephen Krensky & Kristyna Litten
• Elmore by Hollie Hobby
• A Friendship Yarn by Lisa Moser & Olga Demidova
and a short novel that is lots of fun
• Stinkbomb and Ketchup Face and the Quest for the Magic Porcupine by John Dougherty
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