Velvetcap Mushroom Scouts — Woodland Animal Rangers Reference Sheet

The story of Velvetcap Mushroom Scouts

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

The Velvetcap scouts had drawn every mushroom in the west wood except the one on page forty. Nobody remembered making the drawing. It showed a purple cap with a narrow white rim, standing on a staircase so small that the badger needed a lens to count its steps.

The hare searched hollow stumps. The owl examined bark above the branches. The raccoon looked under a bridge and found a perfectly ordinary button. Meanwhile the hedgehog sat beside the stream with the notebook upside down. Seen that way, the staircase looked remarkably like the teeth of a comb.

At the edge of the wood lived a doll maker whose granddaughter had once borrowed the scouts’ pencils. On her worktable stood a miniature house with a comb for a staircase and a painted mushroom for a roof. The girl recognized her drawing at once. She had slipped it into the notebook because that was where important discoveries went.

The scouts asked her to draw a second page showing where she had found each piece of her little house. She marked the stream, the old button bridge and the stump where she gathered wood. Page forty still shows a mushroom nobody can find in the forest. Page forty-one tells visitors exactly which door to knock on.

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