A basic introduction to raccoons, mammals that stay awake at night, discussing what raccoons look like, where they live, what they eat, how they sound, and where they go during the day.
The Squabbles, a raccoon family newly arrived in the Forest of Glade, shock the community when it is discovered that the father is beating his wife and son.
An account of the close friendship the author developed with a solitary wild raccoon while searching for signs of the Sasquatch in the British Columbia wilderness around Lake Nicomen.