• Age: 6 to 8
• Grade: 1 to 3
• Reading age: 6 to 8

Eager for some peace and quiet, the main character of this tale in verse moves to the woods and builds a little cabin getaway. She’s found the perfect retreat—or so she thinks until she meets her neighbours: an array of loud and lively creatures who crunch and crack and hoot their way into her life. Young listeners will delight in the animals’ playful antics and learn a bit about life in the wild.

Sara Jewell is an award­winning narrative journalist whose articles and essays have been published in newspapers and magazines across Canada; she is a frequent contributor to Saltscapes and the United Church Observer magazines. Her “Field Notes? column, which was an Atlantic Community Newspaper Awards finalist in 2013, appears bi­weekly in the Citizen-Record newspaper. Born and raised in Ontario, Sara received her Arts and Education degrees from Queen's University.

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Charlotte Manning is an illustrator from Northumberland in the UK. She's currently living and working in British Columbia, Canada. She loves being outdoors and drawing what she can see in nature. She works with mixed media and pochoir. Her debut book The Lost Horse was published in the UK in 2022. Find more of her art at www.charlottemanning.art

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