Skunk and Badger
by Amy Timberlake (Algonquin Young Readers, 2020); audiobook read by Michael Boatman (Workman, 2020)
A 21st Century Wind in the Willows, though preferring character and incident to the wistful idyll of its setting. While Badger and Skunk’s friendship comes with a moral, the story is nothing but whimsy and fun, dipping about like an untethered kite.