The Dormouse's Doorbell

In a hollow beneath an old oak tree, Hazel the dormouse has a cozy home with a round door and a mossy mat, but every knock sounds like thunder and makes her spill her tea. Wearing her sky-blue apron full of tiny tools, she decides to invent a gentler way for friends to announce themselves, testing a jingling bell and a slippery pull-rope along the way.

A rabbit neighbor with sensitive ears and a glossy green beetle named Barnaby, who carries a magnifying lens and a tiny tool belt, join her experiments with spider silk, a bendy reed, a mushroom cap, and an empty snail shell. Word of her work spreads, and other creatures soon want doorbells of their own. Written by Ebru Mina TOMURCUK, this tale of patience and trial and error can be read on Onlinemasal Com.Tr.