A lot has been written about The Precipice. Two hundred and sixty three poems in fact ... and that’s just the ones that can be found in the Haven library. There are countless others scribbled in dusty notebooks and verses long forgotten that never even made it onto …
The Cub’s Adventure Manual
In our fourth book, Haven, there's a whole chapter about The Cub’s Adventure Manual. It is probably the most loved book in all the history of Haven. No one is quite sure who wrote the first edition, or what that first edition even looked like. One story goes that the chapter on …
The Ode to Bartholomew the Brown
“The Ode to Bartholomew the Brown” is the second most famous Adventure song in the history of the bears of Haven. “Adventure My Bear, Adventure” is of course the most famous, sung every summer as Young Cubs go out for their Adventure (and hummed by some bear, somewhere, most …
The Joy of Mangoes
We love mangoes at our house. We don’t eat them often, but when we do it usually elevates the status of the meal into something a little like a feast. That lunchtime or dinnertime almost always ends with sticky, happy grins (and afterward, extended times of flossing ... getting …