Hazel loves nature, exploring, and capturing ‘ephemeral’ things on her camera. She is spending a lot more time on her own now since deciding to avoid her best friend, Olivia. When exploring in the bush near her house she meets a potential new friend, named Cole. Cole is nonverbal, but communicates effectively using a myriad of tiny trinkets that he keeps in his many pockets. Together they stumble upon a treasure box in a hole in the ground. The box is filled with a collection of tiny toys as well as a handwritten letter and diary. The letter, written in Pig Latin, challenges them to solve the enclosed word and number puzzles to identify the owner of the box and perhaps become friends.
Leaf Letters is an interactive junior fiction novel suitable for an audience aged 7 years and older. It is written in the first person by the nine-year-old protagonist Hazel and includes themes of friendship, belonging, nature and being present. The text is broken up by black and white nature photographs taken by Hazel, as well as notes, letters, puzzles, and diagrams left by the owner of the treasure box.
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