🦊 Pip

Book 48 of the series

Cover of Pip and the Nine-Tailed Fox's First Tail

Pip and the Nine-Tailed Fox's First Tail

A small fox with one tail meets a smaller fox waiting to earn its first β€” and together they discover that patience has its own kind of magic.

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Ages
3-7
Reading level
Grade 1
Length
774 words
An illustration from Pip and the Nine-Tailed Fox's First Tail

How it begins

β€œThe smell of cedar arrives first. Then the hum. Then the wide, open pull of a valley that has been waiting there for a very long time.”

Children will love

  • β€’A cedar kite-station high above a valley, where a tiny nine-tailed fox counts an invisible number that never arrives
  • β€’Pip marking a map with everything NinΓ© has already done, turning waiting into a journey already underway
  • β€’One small tail finally lifting on its own, spiraling free in the warm evening air