Marije Tolman

"Long, long ago it was so busy. Nobody had time to stop for a moment. Everything and everyone had to be higher, faster, further, bigger, prettier, more!" Thus begins Grandpa Hedgehog's story of the Rush Era. A time not so different from our own, where everyone was constantly on the move and no one had time to stop for a moment, even to care for the forest. Everyone except for Quills" -- Provided by publisher.

A wordless picture book in which a brown bear joins a polar bear in a tree surrounded by water, they find the treehouse there to be a good spot for reading books and, as the floodwaters recede, entertaining many other creatures.