Dimly Remembered Kids' Book About a Flying Squirrel and His Friends

September 24, 2013 10:55 AM

I've been racking my brain trying to remember a book I liked when I was a kid. As I recall it was a small chapter book, with a reading level somewhere in the 2nd - 3rd grade range. It was about a group of forest animals, and I think most or all of them were nocturnal. The main one was a flying squirrel.

In my memory, the cover was a dark blue/black night scene with the flying squirrel leaping out a of pine tree with visible pine cones. We had it in hardback. This would have been 1978, give or take, but the book itself could have been older. I cannot think of the title at all, but I think it had the word "night" in it.

Googling has turned up nothing. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

posted by Pater Aletheias to Grab Bag (5 answers total)

Could it be Federico the Flying Squirrel?
posted by xenophile at 11:32 AM on September 24, 2013

Best answer: Could it be Mystery in the Night Woods by John Lawrence Peterson? The edition I linked to is from 1991 but the first reviewer there read it in 1975.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 11:33 AM on September 24, 2013

Best answer: Here's a blog post with a cover image from an older edition of Mystery in the Night Woods. It is a dark blue night scene, but no pine cones and no leaping.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 11:41 AM on September 24, 2013

Response by poster: Yes, yes, yes! That's it! You are my new best friend!
posted by Pater Aletheias at 11:50 AM on September 24, 2013

Which one is it?
posted by Dansaman at 12:56 PM on September 24, 2013