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Small Hours · Unseen Helpers

The first volume of the fables, for the smallest listeners — 10 × 8 landscape books made to be held open on a lap. Two collections: the lamplit quiet of bedtime, and the unseen helpers who tend the world half a step ahead of us.

Collections
2
Tales
24
For
ages 0–8
Format
10 × 8 landscape

C1 · Small Hours

Bedtime, the small hours, the fox who sold the moon.

Warm, rhythmic tales for the end of the day — comfort first, and the first faint wonder.

01

Come Flying Home

Kindness given is kindness carried home

02

Boo Hugs the Moon

Hello brings hello

04

The Puddle Who Wanted to Be a Lake

Welcoming is doing

05

Goodnight, Grumbles

Every thought is a small living thing

06

The Cloud Over Clementine

Grumbles attract rain, laughter attracts light

07

Hector Halfway

The broad easy road circles back to your own undone work

08

The Thank-You Stone

What you send out returns riding the current

09

Prunella's Perfectly Awful Predictions

Expect thistles, harvest thistles

10

The Fox Who Sold the Moon

The first impression is the sensing, and it cannot err

20

The Helper at Half Past Three

A helper half a step ahead, waiting on your asking

62

The Bears Across the River

The fault you dislike in another is your own, written large

C2 · Unseen Helpers

The tenders, the guide, the Either–Or.

Nine law tales and one Penny story of the beings who work unseen — and the two-road choices no child escapes.

03

Two Small Seeds

Words grow gardens

16

Who's Tucking In My Tree?

Unseen helpers tend what you plant

17

The Whisper Net

Kind threads are caught and carried home as good

18

Bruno Builds It Twice

Everything lovely was built first in the workshop above

19

The Grumbles' Gardener

Weeds get exactly the care flowers do

52

The Thank-You Tree

Real thanks rises from the soul

53

The Sweet Tree and the Sour Tree

Kind words draw kind words

54

Brave Little Wren

A name is a promise woven by deeds

55

The Walk That Was Two Walks

What you are decides what you see

56

The Unopened Days

The present is the only hour truly lived

57

The House That Wasn't a Hotel

A child is a guest in the house of its parents