On the prairies of Western Canada, winter is barely over when the baby ground squirrels are born. The little ones grow quickly. They learn to find their own food, stay alert, and master the danger calls that keep them safe from predators. By midsummer Mom will disappear underground to hibernate. And while she sleeps, the young ones face the world alone as they fatten themselves up for the long winter ahead.

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd .

Aubrey Lang and Dr. Wayne Lynch are a husband and wife writer/photographer team. Aubrey has spent the last eighteen years as a freelance writer and photographer. Wayne has been a fulltime science writer, and wildlife photographer for twenty-eight years. His images have been published in more than forty countries.