The Hedgehog's Magic Garden

Hazel the hedgehog lives at the edge of a deep, green wood, small and round with soft golden-brown fur and a red scarf that flutters as she scurries along the winding path. One bright morning she finds a gap in the brambles she has never noticed before, and beyond it lies an old, forgotten garden where the flowers droop, the pond is still, and the leaves are dull and grey. Remembering her mother's stories of magic gardens where blossoms shine like tiny lanterns, Hazel sits on a mossy stone and wonders how the flowers get their glow, and her answer is simple: maybe they need friends.

So begins her plan to bring the garden back to life, as she brings Pip the blue songbird and Bramble the rabbit to help, and later Fenn the fox and Moss the little mouse, with word spreading through the woodland until squirrels, badgers, moles and beetles arrive in pairs. This gentle tale by Ebru Mina TOMURCUK follows Hazel as she gathers helpers and discovers that the garden's light comes from cooperation rather than spells. It can be read on Onlinemasal Com.Tr.