Bunting, Eve

A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

There were 21 squares on the calendar, one for every day Riley had left. I X-ed out the first one in red. One day used up, twenty to go. And I tried hard not to look at the last red square, not to think what it meant. All day long I'd tried not to see Riley's face on our flyers. I'd tried to make this a sort of game, a challenge, and not remember what the reward would be or what would happen if we lost...Did Ellis Porter have a calendar too and was he staring at it too and planning as I was planning? A life for a life. A dog for his cat.

When two turtles go to the gym, plant a garden, see a movie, eat out and go on a night hike, they discover that you do not have to like the same things in order to be friends.

Although Old Badger cannot do some things as easily as he used to, he can still teach Little Badger the many things he knows about finding good things to eat and staying safe and happy.