{"product_id":"otto-the-outta-not-otter","title":"Otto the Outta Not Otter","description":"Every night the otters of River Browns Marsh sleep in a raft — not a raft made of wood, but a raft made of each other — floating on their backs with their toes pointed at the moon, holding hands so nobody drifts away in the dark.\nOtto always slept beside Grandpa Reed. “Hold my paw, little fish,” Grandpa Reed would say. “You don’t have to hold tight. You just have to hold.”\nThen one night Grandpa Reed slipped away. He was very old, and very tired, and it was simply his time. Nobody’s fault. Nothing anybody did. But Otto had fallen asleep holding his paw, and Otto woke up looking at his own open paw and believing he had let go.\nHe never told anyone. He folded the thought up small and swallowed it, and it sat in his tummy like a stone.\nSo Otto stopped holding paws — because holding hands was how you lost somebody. He slept alone on the bank. He got loud and fast and reckless, because when you go fast enough you can’t hear the stone. Soon the whole river was calling after him: Otto, you outta not. Everyone could see what he was doing. Nobody could see what he was missing.\nUntil Patch Wickerwell left his workshop door open, told the worst jokes on the river to nobody in particular, and waited.\nOTTO THE OUTTA NOT OTTER: HOLD MY PAW, LITTLE FISH is a picture book about the grief nobody sees — and about the particular ache of a child who has quietly decided that somebody’s death was their fault.\nIt is written for the child who has lost a grandparent, and for the grown-up who suspects a child is carrying something they haven’t said out loud. It ends the way grief actually ends: not with the sadness gone, but with a pack that holds on to an open paw for as long as it takes, and a truth worth saying to any grieving child — letting go in your sleep is not the same as letting go in your heart.\nIncludes a keepsake page for children to record their own memories of someone they miss, because memories are keepable things.\nAges 4–8. Every book in the Mudpies Universe is built on three promises: no animal is ever harmed, the stories help instead of hurt, and yes always beats no.","brand":"BYION ENTERPRISES","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039682769061,"sku":"59g2jn","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/3303\/0309\/files\/w4gg2dy-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1784803660","url":"https:\/\/qdjejq-0y.myshopify.com\/products\/otto-the-outta-not-otter","provider":"BYION ENTERPRISES","version":"1.0","type":"link"}