'For safety is a precious place,
a place to call our own.
This road is hard, this road is long,
this road that leads us home.'

As winter approaches, a bird flees with her chick, a mouse builds a nest for her child and rabbits run from wolves that roam in the darkening woods. The road home is long and hard, but the animals have each other in this poetic meditation on nature, survival and love.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd .

Katie Cotton studied English at Oxford University and worked in education before becoming Editor at Templar Publishing. Sarah Jacoby grew up wandering the woods outside of Philadelphia. She now draws for many people and places, including the New York Times, and she is the author and illustrator of Forever or a Day . She lives in Philadelphia.