The Three Flames and the Children of the First World
Sibling gods Midi, Mayi and Inalarti fill an empty ocean with land, sky and fire, then find their hardest work is the children asked to share it.
Sibling gods Midi, Mayi and Inalarti fill an empty ocean with land, sky and fire, then find their hardest work is the children asked to share it.
Villagers see him one winter morning, a boy who has lived alone in the forests of southern France for years, and their words are stranger than trees.
Bea packs a yellow hat, a toy rabbit and one large question for her first trip to the wildlife park, where every animal she counts has other plans.
Wolves raised the girl who now knows every mountain trail, and she has no words for the villagers who call her strange because of it.
Red sets out with soup, bread and a rolling honey jar for her grandmother, carrying her mother's rule about asking for help into a wood where a wolf waits.
Explorers find Shamdeo living alone among the trees and try to teach him a world of lights and crowds that he has never once needed.
Pip, Poppy and Rowan leave home with a flute, seeds and too many tools, and build three very different houses on a mother's advice about asking for help.
A riverside picnic planned down to the last berry bun leaves no room in Little Otter's list for Duck's hat, Tortoise's pace or anyone else's fun.
A three-toed footprint outside her window is far too big for a dog, so Mila fetches her sketchbook and her grandfather and follows the tracks past the ridge.
When a storm cuts the power, Ellie and her brother Freddie turn a dark living room into a blanket fort, with one torch and a thunderclap that keeps returning.