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Tippytoes the Urban Raccoon is Karen E. Smith's fourth children's book about discovering nature literacy. The rhyming story is about a family of raccoons who invade a city back lane, trying to find food in garbage cans while a man and a young boy who live across the back lane from one another wrestle with the idea of how to deal with the raccoons. The story ends on a positive note when the man and boy decide to collaborate on how the raccoon situation should be handled.
The book was written to support literacy development and connection to nature, especially for urban youths who often do not have the chance to be involved in nature literacies. The book promotes inter-generational reading practices especially through rhyming, pictures, photos, and the interchangeable use of both print books and e-readers.
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Karen E. Smith, PhD, is an award-winning professor of literacy education at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Prior to this, she was a teacher in both English and French immersion settings K-12, a school division music coordinator K-12, and a principal. She is the author of over one-hundred journal articles, three texts, and four children's books. She has served as managing editor of English Quarterly and currently serves as co-editor of Classmate (Manitoba Association of Teachers of English journal). She provides editorial services for many noted journals/publication houses. She has held research grants with many foundations and recently has turned her attention to research on literacy, creativity, and imagination connected to nature. She serves on the boards of Nature Manitoba and the Canadian Network for Ocean Education where she supports the study of nature literacy.
