Funny / Tales from Dimwood Forest

• Ereth teaching himself to smile in order to mourn Poppy's apparent death is oddly funny, heartwarming, and tear jerking all at once. Brian Floca's illustration of Ereth drawing the corners of his mouth back with his paws sells it.
• Ereth's rants in general, due to the clever expletives that he uses. The author really deserves a medal! Some choice gems include: "Musty moose marmalade"; "Lungfish loogies"; "Baggy buffalo boxers"; "Square root of platypus;" "Fish feather fruitcakes;" and "Creamed caterpillar cheese on chocolate-coated cats!"
• Mr. Ocax's fabricated claims about porcupines being bloodthirsty killers of mice, and Poppy's later discovery to the contrary.
• When he overhears a trapper claiming to be "hungry enough to eat a porcupine", Ereth eats his way through an axe handle and fills a snowmobile seat with quills. When the trappers discover his doing one jokingly suggests to the first that a porcupine might have heard his earlier remark and taken revenge.