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New Series! You have never seen guinea pig storybooks like these before! Begin a beloved. tradition today.

Each enchanting storybook features approximately 100 (yes, 100!) charming guinea pig illustrations by Melissa J. Taylor, accompanied by 10 fictional stories/chapters of adventures during that season. Each volume is suitable as a bedtime storybook, but adults (especially cavy enthusiasts or fans of innovative and clean juvenile fiction) will also love the humorous and adorable adventures as they get to know the quirky and cute characters.
This new series has only begun! The Guinea Pigs' Fall Storybook is newly released, and two editions (winter and spring) will follow in or after 2006.

The Guinea Pigs' Summer Storybook
$18.00
Paperback; 224 pages
Perfect bound
Typed text; B&W illustrations

The Guinea Pigs' Summer Storybook takes the reader on 10 adventures occuring during the warmest months of the year. Object lessons are sensitively introduced, such as listening, playing fair, and helping with younger siblings (but the lessons are never over-the-top or condescending, and kids won't even notice they're there!).

Adventures include a picnic, playing at the local park, visiting the zoo, and summer camp. Just for starters, you'll meet Violet, the bumbling cavy; Polly, who loves her "mumsie;" and Percival, who longs to be a superhero. And we mustn't forget Aunt Puffy and Uncle Fubsy, and their crop farm (Violet wonders what type of animals "crops" are).
This is destined to be your favorite cavy book. The contents are as cute, funny, and loveable as real guinea pigs.
At over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.

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The Guinea Pigs' Fall Storybook
$18.00
Paperback: 221 pages
Perfect bound
Typed text; B&W illustrations

The bumbling and loveable cavies are back! In The Guinea Pigs' Fall Storybook, Percival and Violet are off to help out at Aunt Puffy and Uncle Fubsy's farm in one of the 10 adventures taking place during the fall season. Other activities include choosing Halloween costumes and the first day of school. In one story, Percival receives the news that "mammoth alterations" are taking place at home, and his friends tell him that it is likely a wooly mammoth will soon be moving in. Sure, mammoths are supposedly extinct. But Percival's dad is a scientist!

At over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.

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The Guinea Pigs' Winter Storybook
$18.00
Paperback: 231 pages
Perfect bound
Typed text; B&W illustrations
Join the guinea pig friends for their winter adventures, including Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations. In one story, Violet's mother Mrs. Butterscotch is overcome by the "winter blahs" and decides to spruce things up by swapping the furniture around. The only problem? She has Violet for a daughter! Violet's only problem? She has Chloe for a friend. (And, just so you know, Chloe's problem is that she likes to tell tall tales.)

At over 200 pages, this book contains approximately 100 drawings accompanying 10 stories.

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What do the illustrations in the books look like? The merchandise at www.cafepress.com/cavy contains mostly illustrations from the books!

Cooking for My Cavy: Recipes for Guinea Pigs

$9.95
Paperback: 32 pages
Wire-bound, for ease of use when cooking.
Quaint, handwritten text; B&W illustrations

Description: Over twenty-five treat recipes, tested and approved by a panel of guinea pig taste-testers. Wire binding provides ease of use when baking. Illustrated throughout.

Cooking for My Cavy: Recipes for Guinea Pigs is a wonderful collection of over twenty-five recipes for cavies, using wholesome ingredients commonly found in kitchens. You will find instructions for such delights as Cavy Kabobs, Piggy Pizza, Piggy Popcorn, Couch-cavy Cookies, Oatmeal Cookies, and over twenty more! The recipes are accompanied with Melissa J. Taylor's enchanting black and white hand-drawn guinea pigs on every page. A must for any guinea pig aficionado, this book also makes a charming gift.
The birthday cake is one of my favorites, because it's simple to make for my guinea pigs' birthdays--I bake a few every year. The recipe even includes instructions for edible frosting and candles, too! This one recipe alone makes it worth owning the book.

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Amigurumi Guinea Pig

$5.00
Card style, 2 printed pages

Description: Using amigurumi-style crochet, create miniature guinea pigs in different colors! The finished product is 3-4" (depending on the tightness of your crocheting), and is cute as a bug! Click here for photos of finished product and ideas, or to share your own photos and ideas!

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About the Author/Illustrator
Melissa J. Taylor has owned guinea pigs since the age of nine. Percival, Polly, and Penguin's friends are based on guinea pigs Melissa has owned. Her favorite character, the bumbling-but-loveable Violet, was her childhood pet and first guinea pig--and almost lived to the age of nine! Every guinea pig she has ever owned has been named after a plant, which is why there is always at least one flower in every illustration! Can you find all of them?

Melissa once worked as a cartoonist for a well-known pet magazine and has had several pet and health articles professionally published. She began writing these stories as a youth mentor.

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What People are Saying
"I work in a children's hospital and always get complimented when I wear my Cavy Christmas sweatshirts" (Donna).