Tell Me a Story, Please by Kyoko Hara

This is a fun book with fairy tales.  The little girl liked it when her mother read to her but she was going to have a baby and then she didn't have time...

Museyon and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It has been published and you can get a copy now.

She goes out to sit under a tree and decides to read out loud.  She's surprised when she looks up and finds the animals listening.  They ask her to tell them another story.

So every Saturday, she sits under the tree and reads them another story.

One tale she read them she put them in it.  That became a favorite and managed to save her forest...

The Secret Forest Friends by Kyoko Hara

Mayu likes to go visit her grandparents.  They have a forest across from them and she has made friends there.

Museyon and Net Galley let me read the book for review (thank you).  It has been published and you can get a copy now.

She has a fox friend in the forest and they write letters to each other.  

She has a writing assignment for school and she's going to use forest flowers to make it stand out.

All is well until she loses her one of her brand new shoes.  The creek took it off her foot.

Will she be able to find it?

The Mailbox in the Forest by Kyoko Hara

Mayu is a first grader and is staying with her grandparents in the summer.  She explores the woods across the street.

Musyon and Net Galley let me read this book for review (thank you).  It has been published and you can get a copy now.

This delightful story has Mayu finding a mailbox in the woods  She doesn't know who put it there but she leaves a letter.  Someone writes back to her.  They exchange letters until she finally meets the other letter writer.  She's excited when she sees who it is but she's disappointed she has go home the next day and she can't write to him from there.

But a solution pops up.  His bird friend will carry the messages back and forth.  Now Mayu is happier.  And she'll be back next summer...