Book Company Featherwood Forest

Racer the Cloud & Ramshackle The Rabbit

The story of Racer the Cloud and Ramshackle the Rabbit illustrates the importance of slowing down, paying attention to friends around you...

…and making your little patch on this earth all the more colourful and fragrant for you having spent quality time there

Jack and Erin

Jack and Erin is a story about endurance and hope. In spite of the storms and turbulence of yesteryear, new life springs forth in the entanglements of the threads that we weave together. It is only when we are ripped and torn at our deepest core that we find a way to connect.

This is a departure from Featherwood Forest. Ann has decided to go in a new direction with her latest children’s metaphorical story, Jack and Erin, which she has dedicated to the people of the North of Ireland.

Stripe the Cloud and Lizzie the Lamb

The story about Stripe the Cloud and Lizzie the Lamb sheds some insight about why it is important to listen carefully and pay attention to the experience and insight of those who have the responsibility of keeping us safe.

Lizzie the Lamb wanders away from her mother as they graze in the meadow above the Village of Ticklefield that is near Featherwood Forest. Lizzie the Lamb finds that it is difficult for her to find her way back home. In the meantime, her mother is worried that something has happened to her little Lizzie the Lamb and searches the field trying to find her.

Meanwhile, up in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School that sits in the sky above Featherwood Forest, Stripe the Cloud has been given his homework assignment from Mrs. Cloudburst. He has to help someone on his way home from The Rainbow Arches Nursery School. Stripe helps Lizzie the Lamb to get home.

Lizzie the Lamb learns an important lesson from her time outside the field. After her hard trip home, she understands that it is important to listen and to follow directions. Witty the wise old owl who sits atop the highest tree in Featherwood Forest is happy that Lizzie the Lamb has learned these lessons and is safely home with the help of Stripe the Cloud.

Bounce the Cloud and Squiggles and Riggles the Squirrels

Squiggles the Squirrel and Riggles the Squirrel are twin squirrels. They were born to Sally the Squirrel in Featherwood Forest. Sally the Squirrel taught both of her sons to take care of themselves before she went to live at the edge of the forest. Squiggles the Squirrel liked to climb to the top of the trees while Riggles the Squirrel was content to play with his friends on the forest floor.

Riggles the Squirrel looked at his brother Squiggles the Squirrel and knew he too had the ability to climb. He realized when he tried to climb however, that he was afraid. Riggles the Squirrel just needed to find the courage to climb. Bounce the Cloud is on her way home after a day in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School in the sky above Featherwood Forest.

Mrs. Cloudburst had given Bounce the Cloud some homework to do. Bounce the Cloud was to help someone on her way home from school. Bounce the Cloud is very anxious to help someone and after looking very carefully on the earth, she found she could help Riggles the Squirrel find bouncehis courage.

With Bounce the Cloud’s help, Riggles the Squirrel finds out that he could climb after all. He would climb in his own time.

Puffy the Cloud and Bristle the Porcupine

Puffy the Cloud and Bristle the Porcupine is another book in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School Series. The Rainbow Arches Nursery School is in the sky just aboveFeatherwood Forest. Mrs. Cloudburst is the teacher and wants to make sure that all the little Clouds who attend the Rainbow Arches Nursery School learn very quickly that they are connected to all things on the earth. The little Cloud has to help someone on the earth before getting home after school is over for the day.

Mrs. Cloudburst gives homework to one little Cloud every day. The homework is simple. The little cloud has to help someone on the earth before they get home after school.

Down below, in Featherwood Forest the animals there have also to learn they are connected to all around them. Bristle the Porcupine is always alone. He is alone only because he is shy and afraid. When the other animals approach him, he gets frightened and shows his spikes. Some animals stay away from him.

Puffy the Cloud has to help Bristle the Porcupine to find his voice and to overcome his shyness. Puffy the Cloud makes sure that Bristle the Porcupine is touched by the gentle leaves. This opens up Bristle the Porcupine to be able to connect with others in the Featherwood Forest. He makes friends and overcomes his shyness.

Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog

Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog is a book in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School Series. This story about Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog explores the ability of discovering the depth of friendship when times are difficult. The loyalty of a good friend sustains us when times are challenging, when the storms of life blow long and hard.

Friendship ensures we are never truly alone. Such support helps us to take risks. Such support helps us to find our inner wings so we can move along and maybe even fly. This story takes us again to the Rainbow Arches Nursery School in the sky located just above Featherwood Forest that stands at the edge of the Village of Ticklefield.

There, Mrs. Cloudburst teaches her little Clouds that all things in the sky and all things of the earth are strongly connected. She makes sure that her students learn that lesson at a very young age. Homework is simple and yet its purpose is intended to have a profound impact. This story describes how Shadow the Cloud makes a difference on his way home from the Rainbow Arches Nursery School when he notices Ripples the Frog and Maisey the Butterfly are in trouble in the middle of the storm.

Witty the wise old owl who sits atop the highest tree of Featherwood Forest, is happy to know that the animals in Featherwood Forest learn that they are connected to one another, responsible for the life of the forest and accountable to leave the forest a better place by having lived there.

Dollop the Cloud and Dee the Bee

Introducing Dee the Bee and Dollop the Cloud doing their very best to help others in their daily routine. There are many ways to see things and these two do their very best to help Eddie the Badger see a whole new world.

Featherwood Forest is a magical place. It is situated on the edge of the Village of Ticklefield. Just above the Featherwood Forest is the Rainbow Arches Nursery School. Mrs. Cloudburst, the teacher, welcomes all the little clouds in the sky every day to school. It is important to her that the little clouds from the very beginning learn that all things on the earth and all things in the sky are connected.

The things that happen on the earth have an impact on the sky above. The things that happen in the sky also have an impact on all things on the earth. This story illustrates that reality. Dee the Bee, the fashionable, energetic bee living in Hive 41 at the edge of Featherwood Forest, has a lot of lessons to teach us. She finds Eddie the Badger working much too hard and decides to do something about it. Eddie the Badger has no time for himself. He has never seen the sky.

Burrowing into tunnels every day leaves Eddie the Badger with a stiff neck so that he cannot look up. Dee the Bee carefully crafts a solution to Eddie’s need to take time for himself and see the sky. She brings earth and sky together and helps Dollop the Cloud feel good about giving everything she has to make Eddie the Badger’s dream come true.

Gusty the Cloud and Streakie the Snail

This story is situated in Featherwood Forest located on the edge of the Village of Ticklefield. Just up above Featherwood Forest is the Rainbow Arches Nursery School where all the little clouds go to school. Their teacher is the energetic cloud, Mrs. Cloudburst. It is important to her to help the clouds in her school to understand that the earth and the heavens and all that dwell in them are truly connected and have a resultant responsibility to one another.

This story explores the reality that we lead rushed, busy, gust-filled lives and often forget to stop and look around us, hesitant to pay attention to what is happening close at hand. We sometimes fail to be aware of those around us who may be burdened. Even when the burdens others have to carry are evident, like Streakie the Snail having to carry her house on her back, the hurry and flurry of our day often misses the gift of helping others just by being present to them.

Streakie the Snail lives at a different pace than Gusty the Cloud. Streakie the Snail lives at a different pace that the other animals in Featherwood Forest.

When Gusty the Cloud slows down enough to connect with Streakie the Snail, the other animals, and indeed Gusty the Cloud too, learns some valuable lessons about the giftedness that Streakie the Snail brings to Featherwood Forest. Featherwood Forest is that magical place which represents a microcosm of the real world.

Patch the Cloud and Turnover the Turtle

This story is situated in Featherwood Forest located on the edge of the Village of Ticklefield. Just above Featherwood Forest is the Rainbow Arches Nursery School where all the little clouds go to school.

Their teacher is the energetic cloud Mrs. Cloudburst. It si important to her to help the clouds in her school to understand that the earth and the heavens and all that dwell in them are truly connected and have a resultant responsibility to one another. This story helps to illustrate tht it is part of life to be different .

It is important to engage with difference in order to widen our horizons of understanding and broaden the embrace of mutual respect of one another. Patch the Cloud is different from all the other clouds in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School. Turnover the Turtle is different than the other animals in Featherwood Forest. He has difficulty walking. Patch has to realize that he does not live in isolation even though his ‘life’ is in the sky.

The story shows that we are indeed all connected. Turnover the Turtle helps patch the Cloud to be ‘earthed’ and Turnover the Turtle teaches patch the Cloud some lessons the sky could never do. Featherwood Forest is that magical place which represents a microcosm of the real world.

Cozy the Pine Tree and Swaylee the Elm

The story is about life, death and endurance of friendship.

No matter what the season brings, the greening of spring, the summer’s golden dances, autumn’s readiness to release the trees hold, to the stark of winter’s depletion, friendship endures.

The story of the pine tree and the elm is one of life and death. When we experience a loss, we stand in the paper-thin ice of grief. The roots we share in life still connect us. The book is about change which ultimately is transformational.

The roots we share in life still connect us. The book is about change which ultimately is transformational.

Chummy the Cloud and Ella the Eagle

Chummy the Cloud and Ella the Eagle is another story in the Featherwood Forest Series. Featherwood Forest stands next to the Village of Ticklefield. Up above Featherwood Forest is the Rainbow Arches Nursery School.

There, Mrs. Cloudburst, the energetic teacher, ensures that all her little Clouds appreciate that everything in the sky and everything on the earth are connected. In order for her little Cloud students to learn this valuable lesson, she assigns a very special homework each day. At the end of the school day, she picks one of her little Cloud students and asks them to help someone on the earth as they travel home from school.

This is always a very valuable assignment. In this story we find out how Ella the Eagle looses her home. Her plight symbolizses the environmental displacement of animals and the subsequent challenge they face. In Featherwood Forest, however, Ella the Eagle finds refuge after her long and weary journey. She finds a welcome in Featherwood Forest only because a little Cloud was attentive on her way home from the Rainbow Arches Nursery School.

Witty the wise owl oversees all that happens in Featherwood Forest and is very pleased at how all the little animals there come together and work hard to give Ella the Eagle the sense of welcome and belonging she was searching for.