Summer Day with Friends

German artist and children's book author Philip Waechter takes readers into a very ordinary warm, sunny summer day that five friends were lucky enough to spend together. It all started when the Raccoon wanted to bake an apple pie in the morning, but it turned out that there were no eggs in the fridge. The Raccoon went to the neighbor Fox, who kept chickens, to get some eggs. The Fox was busy fixing the roof and complained that he didn't have a ladder. Together they went to the Badger, who always had everything. At that moment, the Badger was solving a crossword puzzle and couldn't find the right word. For help, they went to the Bear, meeting a Crow who volunteered to guide them. Along the way, the friends told each other funny stories, picked blackberries, and descended from a cliff like seasoned climbers. They found the Bear by the riverbank - he was fishing, but he wasn't having any luck. In the end, the fishing trip turned into a collective swimming session, after which the friends lay on the sand for a long time, solving the crossword puzzle. In the evening, they went back to the Badger for the ladder, fixed the Fox's roof, and baked an apple pie at the Raccoon's place. Then they drank tea on the veranda, each thinking: "How wonderful it is to suddenly spend a whole summer day with friends!" This book is about the magic of summer, the magic of friendship, and how an ordinary day can become so happy that you want to return to it again and again.