PIP
Small enough to fit in a jacket pocket, old enough to have slept in cathedral walls and the roots of ancient oaks. Pip is an ancient, glowing creature who wakes when children start wondering again. Read-alouds about love and kindness, plus an ABC book.
5 books, in reading order
PIP and the Mistake
This is where Pip begins. Before Elle and before Caleb, there was a girl named Mira, a river, and an answer that was true and still did harm. Pip hides inside the walls of the world and goes to sleep, and wonder has to find its way back across six centuries. It works as a read aloud for families and as a quiet fable for older readers who would rather have a good question than a tidy answer.
Pip and the Forgetting
An Ancient Mystical Creature Teaches Love and Kindness
When the last old library in town is scheduled for demolition, something ancient stirs inside its walls.
Pip and the Boy Who Stopped Building
Caleb is ten. He spent four months on a model rocket, it fell sideways at the invention fair, and two kids laughed. So he quit. Then Pip turns up, small enough for a jacket pocket and old enough to have slept in cathedral walls. This book is for any child who has packed away something they loved after one bad day, and for the grown ups reading it with them.
Pip and the Heart That Forgot How to Bloom
Pip and the Heart That Forgot How to Bloom is a cozy magical realism novella set in the small Vermont town of Bridgewater Corners. Julie Beisel, forty-two and five years widowed, has sealed her six beehives with wax, let her garden surrender to brambles, and reduced her once-famous "wonder honey" business to selling plain dried herbs from the porch. The day she finally takes shears to the overgrowth, a small, glowing creature named Pip emerges from the soil at the base of her last living rosebush, a "wonder keeper" from her grandmother's half-remembered stories, and asks a single gentle question: What if the emptiness you guard is actually space for something new? At the same moment, her quiet neighbor Michael Paine, who has trimmed her hedges and left jars of ordinary honey at her gate without knocking for five years, appears with another one.
PIP and the ABCs
An ABC Adventure
Learn the alphabet with Pip, who is tiny, glows, and has enormous eyes.