Eleanor Tyrrell

Eleanor Tyrrell is known for writing How I Tamed the Wild Squirrels and its follow-up, More About the Squirrels, books that blend close observation of animal behavior with an easy, affectionate storytelling style. In More About the Squirrels, the text itself identifies her as the author of the earlier squirrel book and places her at St. Katherine’s, Hook Heath, above Woking, giving a small but useful glimpse of her life and setting.

Her work sits comfortably between nature writing and children's literature. Rather than treating squirrels as distant subjects, she wrote about them as individual creatures with habits, tempers, and surprises of their own, which helps explain why her books have continued to circulate through reprints and library catalogs long after their original publication.

Very little firmly sourced biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond her books and their publication details, so her public profile today rests mainly on the charm of those animal stories rather than on a well-documented life history.