Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Picture Book Award 2017 From the creator of Meerkat Mail & Dogs comes a very funny rhyming woodland story about the perils of being too tidy Pete the badger likes everything to be neat & tidy at all times but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates & ends with the complete destruction of the forest! Will Pete realise the error of his ways & set things right? Lush foliage & delightful characters abound in this cautionary tale of overenthusiastic neatness that delivers its message of environmental preservation with subtlety & humour The freshness of the illustrations & the many comic details make this a very special book Once you enter this forest you'll never want to leave Emily Gravett's engaging woodland creatures will appeal to fans of such classics as The Animals of Farthing Wood & The Wind in the Willows & the rhythmic rhyming text is perfect for reading aloud