The Girl and the Otters

Clara spends her mornings by the river, wearing her yellow rain boots and carrying her silver binoculars, watching the otter family that lives along the muddy bank. With her notebook in hand, she carefully records what she sees: Mama Otter teaching her pups to swim, little Pip tumbling head over tail into the water, and the pups chasing leaves and their own tails. Page by page, her notebook fills with otter stories.

One afternoon Clara notices something wrong. A plastic bottle floats near the otters' favorite sliding bank, a crumpled chip bag clings to the mud, and more litter is tangled in the tall grass. When Mama Otter sniffs the trash and leads her pups away, Clara decides their home should be clean and safe. She makes a poster with an otter on it and knocks on her neighbors' doors, and friends like Maya, Mr. Patel, little Toby and neighbor Sam agree to help. This gentle tale by Çınar BİBER, which can be read on Masalcı Baba, follows a curious girl who turns worry into action and shows young readers how teamwork can protect the animals around them.