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The commission — a lesson to teach

“He's been recruiting his friends to run away from his little sister at the playground”

for a boy, almost 5 · a little sibling, age 2
Our casting recommendationone step away
“Let's give this one to a lovable fox pal instead of your son directly, so he can discover the joy of including his sister through someone else's story, rather than feeling pointed at in his own.”
The storyline we picked (of three pitched)
A warm, giggly caper set in a rabbit warren-playground, perfect for the almost-5 crowd who loves a chase. Baxter is the bunny every friend wants to play with — quick hops, clever games, and a rule that little sister Pip is always 'too small to follow.' The toddler refrain 'Hop, hop, off we go!' bounces through the pages (and shifts, at the very end, to 'Hop, hop, here we go!' — an easy, satisfying echo for your two-year-old to chant along). When Baxter's game leads him into unmapped tunnels and he can't find his way back, the very thing that used to annoy him — Pip's habit of copying every hop he makes — turns out to be the only map anyone has.
On the finished book
11 illustrated pages · Watercolor Storybook · narrated by The Steady Storyteller · independently reviewed before publishing
Cover of “Hop, Hop, Off We Go!”
Hop, Hop, Off We Go! — a Fable Designer original, commissioned from the sentence above.

Experience the finished book.

Read & listen

The narrated web edition — every page read aloud by The Steady Storyteller, art and all, right in the browser.

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Print at home

The same press-quality PDF a parent downloads — sized for US Letter, ready for tonight.

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A printed keepsake

A cloth-touch hardcover of this book, printed and shipped. We're choosing the bindery now.

Coming soon

how it opens

The first pages, exactly as printed.

Illustration for page 1 of “Hop, Hop, Off We Go!”
Beneath the playground, in a warren of sandy tunnels, everyone knew Baxter was the fastest hopper around. He darted between the slide and the sandpit, ears flying. "Hop, hop, off we go!" he called, and Clover and Fig scrambled to follow, sand spraying behind their quick zigzags. Only the littlest bunny, toddling far behind, was left to catch up.Page 1 of 11
Illustration for page 2 of “Hop, Hop, Off We Go!”
That littlest bunny was Pip, Baxter's baby sister. She copied every hop he made, her blue ribbon bouncing. "You're too small to follow," Baxter told her. He, Clover, and Fig zigzagged off in a burst of sand, chanting "Hop, hop, off we go!" Pip just watched, humming softly, and hopped after them anyway.Page 2 of 11
Illustration for page 3 of “Hop, Hop, Off We Go!”
The next day, Baxter dreamed up a brand-new trick — a triple-spin hop, tricky and fast. "No baby sister could ever copy this one!" "Hop, hop, off we go!" they shouted, spinning away in a whirl of sand. But when Baxter peeked back, there was Pip, already mid-spin, humming hmm-hop, hmm-hop, matching him move for move.Page 3 of 11

The rest is waiting in the narrated edition — refrain, turning point, and the warm last page before sleep.

One sentence. That’s the whole brief.

Yours could be about the playground, the dark, or the little sister. Every step is quoted in Ink Drops before it begins.

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Hop, Hop, Off We Go! — a Fable Designer sample book