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小男孩半夜被轟隆隆的閃電聲驚醒。隔天一早，爸爸已經出門上班去，小男孩擔心爸爸，希望爸爸早點回家。此時媽媽派給小男孩一個任務---帶蛋糕去拜訪奶奶，但是千萬不要走森林那條路，要挑遠的那條路。小男孩想早點見到爸爸，所以挑了森林那條近路。果然，森林裡的人怪怪的，他先遇到了賣乳牛小男孩、討餅乾的金髮小女孩、等待爸媽回來的一對兄妹…。愈走進森林愈覺得冷，他穿上了路邊的紅外套，拚命跑向奶奶家，但應門的聲音聽起來不像奶奶耶…
A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments – and some oddly familiar characters – in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears.
One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking, lightning flashing across the sky. In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn’t seem to know when he’ll be back. The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma. "Don’t go into the forest," she warns. "Go the long way round." But, for the first time, the boy chooses to take the path into the forest, where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters.