Egg Marks the Spot (Skunk and Badger 2) by Amy Timberlake, Jon Klassen (Illustrated by) Series: Skunk and Badger

This was a fun read.  Skunk and Badger are friends.  They do things together.  In this tale, Badger is trying to get his agate back from his cousin who stole it.

Algonquin Young Readers and Edelweiss let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published September 14th.

Badger and Skunk have chicken friends.  His cousin has rats.  When they find a cave that has amber and a surprise, the cousin is there to try to steal the surprise.

With rats and chickens fighting and part of the amber removed, the surprise wakes up.  Then things get really interesting.

This is the first book in this series that I have read.  I'll be watching for the next one.  Skunk and Badger make a good team.

Pax Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illustrated by)

As a boy, Peter took in a baby fox and raised him.  Pax was wonderful but as things happened in the boy's life, he took him into the woods, threw his toy, and sneaked away.

Balzer + Bray and Edelweiss let me read this book for review (thank you).  It will be published on September 7th.

Pax finds himself a mate and they have a family.  The water they are drinking isn't healthy for them and it really affects the babies.   Peter has joined the crew that is cleaning the water up.

Peter has lost both his mother and father.  He's a teen but he still wants to go home.  He doesn't realize that Pax is there with the worst of the babies.  He enjoys playing with Pax but he's not enthused about raising another fox baby.  However he takes the poor thing in.

Both Peter and Pax have lost parts of their families.  Despite that, it's a fun book to read and there might be more to the story yet...