If You Go Down to the Woods Today...

She keeps everything in its place. Especially her teddy bears — the Cuddlies, ruled by Albert, biggest and best-loved of them all. So when she finds them somewhere they shouldn't be — circled on the floor, propped on the windowsill, waiting at the front door — she blames her dad. He swears it isn't him.

Then Albert starts pointing. At the garden. At the gate that's always locked. At the woods beyond. One by one, the bears lead her out of the house and into the trees — closer to something she was never meant to find, and the truth about why her mother never came home.