Whymusty and the Canadian Rockies

The story

Whymusty can't stop asking "Why?" about everything. While helping Carolesse search for her lost bonnet, the two climb high into snowy mountains, and when Whymusty asks a glowing red moon why it is red, its light swallows him up.

He lands beside a turquoise lake in the Canadian Rockies, where a pine marten named Raffles warns him that a cougar gang is on the prowl and they need to get over a mountain peak.

The real place: Canadian Rockies

Three things to tell your kid after the story.

1. 1Lake Louise gets its turquoise color from rock flour, tiny bits of ground-up rock washed down from a glacier, just like Raffles explains.
2. 2Banff, in the Canadian Rockies, was Canada's very first national park.
3. 3Banff has special bridges and tunnels over and under the highway so animals like bears and elk can cross safely.

Next stop

EP 44 · Egypt

Carolesse

Is very careless.

EP 45 · Madagascar

Elostum

Loses everything.