B’s Babbles

Sometimes the teammate who seems least important can surprise everyone, and games are funniest when everyone stays kind and laughs together. In Hedgehogtown, behind Mrs. Patterson's garden shed, there was a sign stuck in the dirt. Chip had written it in big muddy letters. "WELCOME TO THE GREAT SPLASHY BATTLE." Chuck stood beside the sign with a cabbage leaf tied around his head like...

Chip, Chuck, and Chewy visit the Hedgehogtown fire station for a morning tour led by the kind and patient Chief Bramble. Despite their very best intentions and one very thorough preparation list, the three hedgehogs manage to helmet a soup pot, unravel a fire hose across the entire station floor, and accidentally slide down the fire pole together. But when a tiny meep from inside a cabinet leads t...

Chewy spots a large white bird circling the hidden glen — and it turns out to be Stella the Stork, who offers to fly the S.S. Recycling Bin and its crew all the way home to Hedgehogtown. There's just one problem: the boat is absolutely, hopelessly overloaded. Chuck must bid a tearful farewell to Sir Quacksworthy the rubber duck, a premium flat sitting-stone, and one-and-a-half loaves of bread...

Chip navigates the S.S. Recycling Bin far downstream to a beautiful hidden glen, where the three hedgehogs meet Boom — a huge, gentle bear with small glasses who is an expert at making s'mores. Chewy drops his marshmallow into the fire three times before Boom helps him get it perfectly golden-brown. Chuck takes one bite of a s'more and declares it the best moment of his life. The trio ca...

The crew of the S.S. Recycling Bin pulls ashore for a picnic beneath a willow tree — only to discover the riverbank is already booked. General Crumb and her ant colony have been planning their own thirty-seven-course picnic since Tuesday. With military precision on one side and cheerful hedgehog chaos on the other (including Chewy sitting on a freshly built twig bench), the two very different grou...

The S.S. Recycling Bin sets off on a sailing trip through Hedgehogtown — but Chuck keeps spotting things they simply cannot do without. A terracotta flowerpot for storage, a rubber duck for emergencies, a flat stone for sitting, a garden hose for practically everything, and three warm loaves of bread from Mr. Bumberton's bakery. Each new addition sits the boat a little lower in the water, unt...

The morning after the S.S. Recycling Bin's triumphant launch, the crew of three discover a very inconvenient leak. Luckily, Chuck spots something golden and gloopy on the old oak tree — tree sap, sticky and waterproof and absolutely perfect. With the hull patched, Chip unfolds his hand-drawn map and leads the crew downstream on their first real voyage: past the mossy stone fork, through a sto...

It's a perfectly ordinary Tuesday in Hedgehogtown — until Chip, Chuck, and Chewy spot a very smug duck on Mrs. Patterson's pond and decide they absolutely need a boat. Using bottles, string, a wobbly plank, and a tin of blue paint, the three friends set to work. Chewy manages to turn himself entirely blue, ties himself to the boat with orange string, and launches himself into the apple t...

It's marathon training day in Mrs. Patterson's garden — or at least, that's the plan. Chip draws up a proper schedule, Chuck packs an extremely un-light bundle of running food, and Chewy ties leaves to his feet as faster shoes. What follows is one trip to the pond, a banana named Sir Yellowtop, a runaway gnome, and a finish line nobody expected. A warm and silly story about how goin...

You don't have to be good at someone else's game — inventing your own is even better, especially when you play it with your best friends. It was a sunny Wednesday morning in Hedgehogtown, and Chip, Chuck, and Chewy were walking down Maple Street when Chuck stopped dead in his tracks. "Look!" said Chuck, pressing his nose against the electronics shop window. On the big display T...

Chuck spots a dazzling dancer on a TV in a shop window and decides he absolutely must learn to dance. Back in Mrs. Patterson's garden, Chip takes charge of lessons — but spinning, dipping, and jumping all go hilariously wrong for the three little hedgehogs. When Mrs. Patterson brings out her radio and tells them to just move however the music makes them feel, the trio invents their very own d...

Sometimes the simplest things are the most wonderful, especially when shared with good friends The trouble started when Chuck the hedgehog decided he was, in fact, an EXCELLENT cook. "I'm making breakfast!" Chuck announced to his friends Chip and Chewy. "And not just any breakfast. The most AMAZING, most INCREDIBLE, most DELICIOUS pancakes anyone has ever tasted!" Chip loo...

Sometimes the best improvements are the ones that make you laugh and bring friends together The trouble started when Chip the hedgehog was peeking over Mrs. Patterson's fence, watching her television through the window. On the screen, a cheerful human was transforming a dull room into something magnificent. "And now with just a few simple changes," the TV host announced, "your...

Sometimes the simplest answer is right in front of us, and it's okay to laugh at our mistakes The trouble started when Chuck found something VERY mysterious in Mrs. Patterson's garden. It was round. It was red. And it was absolutely, completely, one-hundred-percent impossible to figure out. "I," announced Chuck, puffing out his spiky chest, "am going to solve this mystery!...

The most wonderful discoveries come when curiosity is paired with patience and respect The morning mist was just beginning to lift from Meadowbrook's rolling hills when Fiona Fox heard the most peculiar sound. She paused on her way to the babbling brook, her pointed ears twitching with curiosity. *Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling.* It wasn't the cheerful chime of the village wind chimes, nor… Se...