Scott Blithe: Copper Hollow, Gebunden

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Fuzzy the bear cub has just moved somewhere new. The cart rolls up to a cabin at the edge of a wide grey lake, carrying everything her family owns: two chairs, a kettle, a stack of blankets, and Fuzzy on top, holding the honey pot so it won't tip. Nothing here is familiar. The cabin is cold, the lake goes on further than she expected, and she doesn't know anyone at all.

So Mama Bear gives her a small job: go out and find just one thing about their new home, then come back and tell them.

Down the shore path, Fuzzy finds a young red fox sitting in the middle of the path, doing nothing at all, very seriously. He says he knows everything there is to know about the valley, and he offers to show her: the reeds that grow taller than a bear, the enormous flat-topped rock, the path that winds over the hill to a farm with a red barn. Then, as the evening light goes long and low, the whole hill above the lake begins to change, and Fuzzy discovers where her new friend got his name.

The Day the Hill Went Copper is the first book in the Copper Hollow series, a quiet, warm picture book about arriving somewhere new, making a first friend, and finding the wonder waiting right outside the window. Soft watercolour illustrations and a gentle, rhythmic text make it a natural bedtime read-aloud for children ages 3 to 7, especially any child facing a move, a new school, or a first day somewhere unfamiliar.

The story began as a nightly bedtime tale and grew into the first book of a series about Fuzzy, Copper, and the woodland world of Copper Hollow.