Celebrate The Season: Winter
	Stories by Allen Morgan
	Art by Vladyana Krykorka
	Six stories - 72 pages

Winter Solstice Tree (part 4)

They called the song again and again and while they were singing Megan's friend Michael came walking by and he sang too. They sang the song for a very long time but the White Wolf never came. Finally they stopped. Winter sighed and shook her head.

"He doesn't hear us," Winter said. "He's gone off somewhere to look for some food. He gets very hungry and there isn't too much to eat this time of year."

"We 'll make him something," Michael suggested.

"What does he like?" Megan asked.

"Cookies," said Winter. "Cookies are his favourite. If we made some cookies and put them out, he'd be back in a flash. He can smell a cookie a mile away."

Megan thought that was a very good plan and Michael did too, so they went back to Megan's and made a big batch. They cut each one out in the shape of a wolf and they used lots of coconut sprinkles on top so they'd be white and furry and very much like the White Wolf himself.

"Perfect!" said Winter when they brought them back. "He's sure to know who they're for."

It was time to go back home for dinner then, so they set out the cookies they'd made on a plate and they sang the song for the White Wolf again.

When Megan and Michael got up the next day, they both ran down to the ravine right away. They had an idea their plan might have worked. A fresh fall of snow had covered the ground and they saw there were lots of fresh paw prints around the plate. The cookies were gone, but Winter was there with a great big smile on her face.

"The cookies worked great!" she said happily. "I was so glad to see the White Wolf again I made it snow last night."

Megan and Michael could see that was so because just as she said it the White Wolf appeared, dashing across the new fallen snow with an icicle clutched in his teeth. They gave him a hug and they played a few games of icicle fetch and snowball catch. They called him sweet names and they sang him his song and they said they'd bake cookies all winter long so he wouldn't be hungry again.