Hello and welcome! I'd like to introduce you to a small friend of mine, named Odric. (He hasn't told me his last name, if indeed he has one.)
Odric is nine years old and lives in Cranberry Valley, a quiet, peaceful little village that's nonetheless renowned for its many seasonal social events, particularly the Blue Gourd Festival every fall. In my very first published book "Odric the Bold" I tell the story of how Odric bravely hiked to the top of the High Forest on a quest to find wild blue gourds and save his hometown's famous festival when their own domestic crop of the lovely blue things failed. He made his trip all by his lonesome, and despite the fact that he is blind.
Odric met lots of interesting and helpful talking animals along the way and we meet them too in the book.
A note about our young hero's name: Odric is pronounced ODD-rick. He's very particular about this.