The Understanding Moon It was too warm out, but Rabbit decided that the warm evening felt like a comforting hug. Despite feeling unaccountably restless all day, she’d pressed on with work, as one does. But after closing the shop, she’d brought a mug of...
The Last of the Tomatoes At the dusky tail end of a windy fall day, Rabbit closed the tea shop, picked up her basket, and went outside. Surrounded by showers of leaves, she set to work gathering herbs to dry from the rafters, ingredients for teas and...
The Windy Day, part 2 While Mr. Owl kept a watchful eye on everyone from atop the schoolhouse tree, his students chased each other through leafy drifts, belly-flopped into noisy leaf piles, and scooped up pawfuls of dry leaves to throw at their friends. ...
The Windy Day A warm autumn wind — the kind that makes one feel alive, but also a little jumpy — whistled through the open windows of the schoolhouse tree so insistently that everyone, even Mr. Owl, had trouble concentrating on schoolwork. And so they...
The Discovery One by one, the little chipmunks poked their heads into the hole under the hackberry tree, but it was too dark to see anything. As the littlest chipmunk, the last in line, peered into the darkness, a shaft of dusky sunlight slanted its way...
