Benny and the Missing River (A Habitat Mystery)

By Jemma Wright and Ben Wright

Benny checks his dam every morning. Every morning it is perfect. Until the morning it isn't.

There's a crack. The pond is dropping. The river below is a path of wet stones. And every animal Benny meets has a different idea about why. The otter says the sun drank it. The heron says the fish left. The raccoon says the beaver built a wall. Everyone is a little bit right. Nobody is right enough.

To find the answer, Benny will have to do the one thing he has never done: stop fixing things alone, and go and find out why.

Join Benny the beaver, Ollie the otter, Harriet the heron, Sal the salmon, Zip the dragonfly, Rosie the raccoon, Grandpa Tuck the turtle and Pinch the crayfish in a mystery where the clues are there for sharp readers to spot, the answer is a twist nobody sees coming, and the only way to fix a river is together.

A story kids race through and parents are glad they did. Every animal in it is real, every fact about them is true, and every chapter carries a lesson a child can use the next day.

Inside you'll find:

42 fully illustrated pages in a warm, painterly storybook style
A true fact about each of the eight river animals
Discussion questions for the car, the kitchen table or the classroom
Reading level: ages 6 to 10, grades 1 to 4. Perfect for reading aloud or for confident readers on their own
Book One of the Habitat Mysteries, where every book is a new habitat, a new cast, and a new reason to look closer at the wild.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HP6PD9GR
• ISBN13: 9798164386764
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.1" x 8.5"