Jon Klassen

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

"This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is."--

Publisher Annotation: Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!

When Peter's father enlists in the military, Peter is forced to return Pax, his pet fox he has raised from a kit, to the wild. From his grandfather's house three hundred miles away, Peter strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile, Pax, steadfastly waiting for Peter, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.