Tree Hugger reports that the European hedgehog is threatened. The BBC blames it in part on "tidier gardens". We should campaign for less tidiness in gardens where hedgehogs live!
There's an endearing hedgehog in Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, which is free online here, but I like those little individual hardbacks with the color illustrations. Here's a sample:
There is a hedgehog in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the croquet chapter, where hedgehogs serve as the balls. Here's what those little ones look like:
Jan Brett includes hedgehogs in some of her books and has a video at her site that teaches how to draw one.
The photo at the top of the post is from the Wikipedia article on this little animal.
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