Untitled Mural by Paul O. Zelinsky

A brown squirrel sitting on the purple outline of a leaf is reading Harold and the Purple Crayon.

A black squirrel is reading A Wrinkle in Time while hanging upside down from a tree branch.

This gray squirrel is holding a stick and reading The Snowy Day.

A brown flying squirrel is reading Superman here.

A brown squirrel reading The Dream Keeper. It is nestled in the crook of two branches and has its eyes closed.

The book was illustrated by Helen Sewell.

A gray squirrel wearing silver slippers reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The book was illustrated by Lois Lenski.

A gray squirrel with a button on its belly is reading Frog and Toad Are Friends.

Two gray squirrels are reading Charlotte's Web. The smaller one is perched on a higher branch next to a spider web.

The book was illustrated by Garth Williams.

This detail features a large gray squirrel, a medium-sized brown squirrel and a small gray squirrel reading Millions of Cats.

This brown flying squirrel is reading Mother Goose.

The book was illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.

Gray squirrel paws are holding The Little Engine That Could, which is smoking and coming out sideways from the tree.

The book was illustrated by Lois Lenski.

A grey squirrel is laying on a branch reading Goodnight Moon, which is hanging open over the branch above him.

The book was illustrated by Clement Hurd.

A gray squirrel is reading Crow Boy. A small crow head is peeking over its shoulder.

A small gray squirrel is reading Dinosaurs.

The Giant Golden Book of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles, Jane Watson Werner, illustrated by Rudolph F. Zalinger (1960)

A gray squirrel is reading The World is Round and scratching its head.

The book was illustrated by Clement Hurd.

A gray squirrel reads Little House in the Big Woods.

The book was illustrated by Helen Sewell.

A black squirrel is reading A Light in the Attic and a smaller brown one is grinding pepper on the black squirrel from a higher branch.

A gray squirrel wearing a yellow hat is reading Ginger Pye.

A brown upside-down flying squirrel reading The Stars.

A black squirrel in the top of a tree looks up at the sky while reading M.C. Higgins, the Great.

A gray squirrel is reading Island of the Blue Dolphins and holding a whale bone.

A gray squirrel wearing a red cap is reading Caps for Sale.

Here, a gray squirrel is facing away reading a book.

The book was illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.

This gray squirrel is sitting on an egg and reading Make Way for Ducklings.

Here, a black squirrel is reading a yellow book, and has 3 others stacked nearby.

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1886)

A gray squirrel is reading The Cat in the Hat to a smaller gray squirrel wearing a red scarf.

One squirrel is brown, and much larger than the baby gray squirrels surrounding it.

The book was illustrated by Helen John.

Squirrel wearing a bonnet is reading Little Women.

Squirrel is reading Perez and Martina, based on a Puerto rican folktale about a love story between a cockroach and a mouse.

The book was illustrated by Carlos Sanchez.

Squirrel who hangs from the lowest limb of the mural’s oak reads Where the Wild Things Are.

A gray squirrel and black squirrel together read Tom Sawyer.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), illustrated by True Williams (1876)

Little Squirrels Storytime in front of the Untitled Mural in the Children’s Literature Gallery at the American Writers Museum in Chicago, IL.