Stories about feelings, friendship, and what it means to grow.
In a field at the edge of a great wood, there lives a small, brave mouse called Pip.
In the wood: Fox, and the tall oaks, and everything that comes next.
At the wood's edge, just here: Owl.
These are Pip's stories.Pip's Wood is a series of children's stories, told in rhyme, made to be read aloud, and built to stay with you.
Each book follows Pip through a new part of growing up: making friends, sitting with difficult feelings, learning who to trust, and finding out that being small doesn't mean being powerless.
The stories are for children aged four and up. They work as read-alouds with young children, and as independent re-reads as children grow. The same story means something different at five and at twelve.
Free to listen. Free to read. Because they should be.
Children spend a lot of time figuring out how the world works — what feelings are, what friendships ask of them, who the safe people in their life are, and whether they're allowed to trust what they feel inside.
Pip's Wood was made for that work.
The stories function as pure stories first. Rhyme, rhythm, characters to love, something to re-read. But they were built carefully around the full landscape of emotional literacy: what healthy relationships feel like, what it means to have your feelings taken seriously, and the quiet discovery that your worth isn't something you earn.
They work for every child. Some will find in Owl something they already know well. Others will find something new.
Any adult who'd like to know more about the themes in these stories is welcome to write to [email protected].
Free to listen. Free to read. Always.