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Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig #6
Fluffy's Silly Summer
Having gone home with Maxwell for summer vacation, Fluffy the classroom guinea pig goes swimming, enters a contest, and investigates a jungle.
40 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2000
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Kate McMullan
222 books153 followersKate McMullan is an American children's book author.
She is the author of the Dragon Slayers' Academy series. She is married to author and illustrator James McMullan.
She also has books published under the name: Katy Hall.
She is the author of the Dragon Slayers' Academy series. She is married to author and illustrator James McMullan.
She also has books published under the name: Katy Hall.
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June 5, 2010
Level: 3
This is a cute, easy-to-read series about Fluffy, a guinea pig who lives in a classroom.
The stories are:
Fluffy the Hero
A Prize for Fluffy
Big, Bad Fluffy
It's summer vacation and the children take turns having Fluffy at their house.
This is a cute, easy-to-read series about Fluffy, a guinea pig who lives in a classroom.
The stories are:
Fluffy the Hero
A Prize for Fluffy
Big, Bad Fluffy
It's summer vacation and the children take turns having Fluffy at their house.
October 1, 2025
This was the sixth book in the Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig series, and it's horrible. The author clearly didn't know anything about guinea pigs. Not only that, but the cover suggests that Fluffy enjoys swimming. GUINEA PIGS CAN'T SWIM. Rather than swimming, they drop to the bottom like rocks and drown. Now, I know this is a kid's book with a certain amount of fantasy involved, but the fact is that kids do accidentally drown their pets in the mistaken belief that all animals instinctively know how to swim.
And a little girl who puts Fluffy in the wading pool never gets reprimanded. The mother even WATCHES and does nothing.
Another chapter concerns guinea pigs getting fleas. The artist draws the fleas as small flies. Fleas don't have wings. Fleas are so large that they are easily seen on guinea pigs. They also quickly make a guinea pig anemic -- so, no dancing guinea pigs, as seen here. Mites would've been a more accurate itchy pest.
Another guinea pig rolls over because she's been taught to. You can't teach a guinea pig to roll over-- because they can't do it. This is kind of an important point.
Since this was first published in 1998, puppies, kittens and a rabbit are shown at a pet shop. The artist may have known about puppy mills and kitten farms, since the puppies appear distressed -- one even cowering in a corner. One kitten is shown giving her back to all of the humans. (Google this behavior if you've never had the dubious pleasure of getting the back by a cat.)
Another chapter showed Fluffy hiding in a nest of baby bunnies. All of the supposedly wild bunnies had domestic colors. None approached an agouti color, or even the usual brown given in most children's books. So, were the foster family secretly stealing the neighborhood's pet bunnies, breeding them, then selling the babies back to very people they robbed?
Fluffy's Silly Summer, no. Fluffy's Sadistic Summer would be a more accurate title.
And a little girl who puts Fluffy in the wading pool never gets reprimanded. The mother even WATCHES and does nothing.
Another chapter concerns guinea pigs getting fleas. The artist draws the fleas as small flies. Fleas don't have wings. Fleas are so large that they are easily seen on guinea pigs. They also quickly make a guinea pig anemic -- so, no dancing guinea pigs, as seen here. Mites would've been a more accurate itchy pest.
Another guinea pig rolls over because she's been taught to. You can't teach a guinea pig to roll over-- because they can't do it. This is kind of an important point.
Since this was first published in 1998, puppies, kittens and a rabbit are shown at a pet shop. The artist may have known about puppy mills and kitten farms, since the puppies appear distressed -- one even cowering in a corner. One kitten is shown giving her back to all of the humans. (Google this behavior if you've never had the dubious pleasure of getting the back by a cat.)
Another chapter showed Fluffy hiding in a nest of baby bunnies. All of the supposedly wild bunnies had domestic colors. None approached an agouti color, or even the usual brown given in most children's books. So, were the foster family secretly stealing the neighborhood's pet bunnies, breeding them, then selling the babies back to very people they robbed?
Fluffy's Silly Summer, no. Fluffy's Sadistic Summer would be a more accurate title.
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