The Hedgehog's Tiny Train

In a quiet corner of the Great Forest, where mushrooms rise as high as umbrellas, lives a clever hedgehog named Harry. Wearing a tiny blue work apron and brass goggles pushed up on his forehead, Harry spends his days tinkering in a burrow filled with inventions. Each morning he watches his friends struggle along the forest paths: Rabbit lugging a heavy sack of berries, Squirrel hauling a big bag of nuts, and Little Mouse barely able to move a bundle of twigs. Harry wishes he could lighten their load.

When Rabbit sighs that the supplies grow heavier every day, Harry hurries to his workshop. He sketches, measures, and saws, using twigs for tracks, acorn caps for wheels, and a spool of thread for a pulley. After working through the day and night, he shows his friends a tiny train no bigger than a loaf of bread, and one by one they try it with their loads. This gentle tale by Çınar BİBER follows Harry's problem-solving and the friends who become the train's crew, and it can be read on Masalcı Baba.