A night owl who never quite learned how to fall asleep on time.

Bery was always the last one awake in the forest. While everyone else slept, he'd lie there, eyes open, mind turning over everything the day hadn't finished with.

One winter evening, restless again, he found an old scrap of paper and a stub of pencil a visiting fox had left behind. Without much thought, he started connecting a scatter of little dots — one to two, two to three — not to make anything in particular, just to give his mind somewhere quiet to go.

Line by line, an owl took shape out of the dark of the page. And somewhere in the drawing of it, Bery noticed his racing thoughts had gone still. His breathing had slowed to match the pencil. For the first time in a long while, he felt ready for sleep.

He started leaving little dot-covered pages on doorsteps around the forest — for the anxious hedgehog, the overworked badger, the small fox who couldn't settle at bedtime. Word got around. Before long, animals from every corner of the wood were asking for "one of Bery's quiet pages."

Bery never became less of a night owl. He just found a gentle way to spend those wakeful hours — and to share that stillness with anyone else who needed it. Every HappyBery book starts the same way his first page did: as a small, quiet way to help a restless mind settle.