Thirty-two pages, about five hundred words.
Read-alouds built for a lap and a bedtime. Every book ends on a question rather than a moral, and carries ask-your-child questions and a glossary of the Newfoundland words in it, with pronunciations, in the back.
None of these are on sale yet. Three are written and the first is being illustrated; the last two exist only as outlines for a possible future season. There is no pre-order, no waitlist fee, and nothing to buy on this page.
While you wait: the activity pack.
Eight pages to print at home — two colouring pages drawn from the same artwork as the books, letters to trace, capelin to count, a kitchen to search, two things to talk about, and a torn-paper Kettle to make with your hands. Every instruction reads aloud in one breath.
Eight pages, US Letter, black and white so it prints on anything. No email needed, no sign-up, nothing to buy — it is yours. Each page carries a note saying what it is quietly practising, in case you want to know.
A first look at the weather.
Short atmosphere pieces for the first two books. No dialogue, no plot, nothing spoiled — just the cove before Kettle walks into it, and the fog that closes over it.
These are painterly atmosphere studies made with AI video tools, kept deliberately in a different register from the books themselves. Every page of every book is original cut-paper illustration, drawn by hand for this project. See the real art →
Three things every book carries.
The first book is being illustrated now.
Leave an address and we’ll write once, when it’s ready to read.
For grown-ups. One email when the first book is out — no schedule, no newsletter, and nothing ever addressed to a child. We ask for an address and nothing else: no name, no child’s name, no ages, no birthdays. Never sold, never shared.