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K-3Penguin Young Readers series.
Despite the cutesy title, this easy reader offers a decent amount of information focusing on hedgehogs as outdoor or indoor pets ("check the laws in your town to see if you can have one"). Photos of hedgehogs playing, sniffing, eating, etc., enhance interest, though clarification would have been useful at times (e.g., we're told the creatures are nocturnal, but the photos are mainly daytime).