A Stickler Valentine

A Stickler ValentineBy: Lane Smith Series: A Stickler Story Stickler, the woodland creature from the mind of award winning author illustrator Lane Smith, returns to celebrate Valentines Day by giving his friends his favorite gift: sticks. A humorous and witty friendship story that encourages kindness and empathy. Stickler, a one of a kind creature made of sticks, is giving his friends Valentines Day sticks, but none of them are interested in Valentines sticks. Crow says

But if anyone can cut through Hitomi's prickly act

Ever since he was a kid

contemporary America

But now the farmers have had enough

That action comes at a cost

and—of course—his beloved short human and best-friend-in-the-world

Soon this simple cookie finds his voice and convinces the others that he

but undergirded by compassion and tenderness

In the ever more competitive race to secure the best possible future

It’s a familiar story—familiar and wrong

But her arranged marriage to Louis VII

Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania