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The well in the wood

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A whimsical collection of short stories and poems for young readers set around the edge of a remote lakeside wood. Episodes follow a curious child and her dog alongside a parade of animals and personified creatures—beavers, bears, blackbirds, a traveled donkey—and include playful lectures, riddling verses, and small moral or comic twists. Each chapter functions as a self-contained vignette that blends rural observation, gentle fantasy, and light satire, moving between lyric moments and anecdotal humor and returning periodically to a quietly mysterious feature of the forest that frames several tales.

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

And Now Vanished in the Depths of the Well Frontispiece
And Led the Way Into a Thicket 13
Which Grew Fainter and Fainter 25
But I’ve Caught You 54
They Set Off Through the Wood 77
I Mean I Can’t Sleep 89
Have You Heard “Nobody Knows”? 120
And Behold They Were Roses 127