Cobb
A thoughtful brown bear whose curiosity often leads the friends toward something new to discover. Cobb learns by observing, asking questions, and refusing to give up when the answer is not obvious.
Children’s Books by J. R. Glenn
Welcome to
Mountain Hollow.
Where a curious bear, a clever otter, and one unforgettable little frog discover that the biggest lessons often begin with the smallest adventures.
Stories Children Can Enjoy.
Lessons They Can Carry With Them.
Cobb’s Mountain Hollow Adventures is a children’s book series built around curiosity, friendship, nature, problem-solving, and growing up.
Each adventure follows Cobb and his friends as something in Mountain Hollow changes, surprises them, worries them, or gives them a new mystery to solve.
The stories invite children to explore the natural world while thinking about friendship, perseverance, belonging, responsibility, change, and the importance of helping one another.
Meet the Friends of Mountain Hollow
Three very different friends. One mountain hollow. More adventures than they ever expected.
Lark
Clever, energetic, and ready to investigate. Lark brings another point of view to every problem and reminds the group that the best discoveries often happen when friends work together.
Pip
A small frog with a big place in the group. Pip reminds young readers that courage, friendship, and good ideas are never measured by size.
More Than Another Children’s Story
The Mountain Hollow books are designed to work on two levels: a story children want to hear and a conversation adults can continue.
📚 Reading
Engaging stories encourage comprehension, prediction, discussion, sequencing, character analysis, and evidence-based thinking.
🌿 Science & Nature
Mountain Hollow creates natural opportunities to discuss habitats, seasons, ecosystems, animals, water, weather, plants, and environmental change.
❤️ Social-Emotional Learning
Friendship, empathy, resilience, problem-solving, belonging, cooperation, responsibility, and handling change are woven naturally into the stories.
💬 Discussion
The stories give teachers and families natural openings for meaningful conversations without turning reading time into a lecture.
🔎 Curiosity
Cobb and his friends notice things. They wonder. They investigate. Children see curiosity modeled as a strength.
🤝 Friendship
Problems are rarely solved alone in Mountain Hollow. Each character contributes something different—and that difference matters.
Enter Mountain Hollow
Explore Cobb’s growing collection of adventures and follow the friends as they encounter new mysteries, changing seasons, unexpected challenges, and the little moments that teach the biggest lessons.
View the Cobb Series on Amazon →Bring Mountain Hollow Into Your Classroom
Cobb was built for more than the bookshelf.
Glenn School Resources™ also offers a classroom-ready Cobb’s Mountain Hollow Adventures Bundle designed to help teachers connect the stories with meaningful reading, science, and SEL instruction.
- Use the stories as engaging classroom read-alouds.
- Build reading comprehension and discussion skills.
- Make authentic science and nature connections.
- Explore friendship, empathy, and problem-solving.
- Extend learning beyond the final page.
“Sometimes the most important adventure isn’t finding something new. It’s discovering what was there all along.”
For Classrooms, Bedtime, and Everything Between
Cobb’s Mountain Hollow Adventures can become a classroom read-aloud, an independent reading choice, a family story, or simply a quiet trip into the woods with three good friends.
Teachers
Use the stories to launch reading, writing, science, social studies, and SEL conversations.
Families
Read together and use Cobb’s adventures to begin conversations about nature, friendship, choices, and growing up.
Young Readers
Return to Mountain Hollow again and again as familiar characters face new mysteries, discoveries, and challenges.
The Trail Into Mountain Hollow Starts Here.
Meet Cobb, Lark, and Pip. Follow their adventures. And discover what happens when curiosity, friendship, and the natural world meet.
