Meet the Forest Friends

Billy

The girl who wanders

Seven years old, pockets full of acorns and questions. Billy is brave in the way small people are brave: quietly, and one step at a time.

Book 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Mango the Monkey

First friend, best mischief

Always upside down, always one branch ahead, always the first to say yes.

Book 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11

Rumble the Tiger

The gentle giant of the grass

A roar like distant thunder and a heart that has never once been unkind to Billy.

Book 1, 3

Sisi the Snake

Keeper of quiet paths

She knows every root and hollow, and she whispers directions in long, curling sentences.

Book 1, 2, 4

Bramble the Elephant

The one who remembers

Slow, enormous, endlessly patient. Bramble carries the forest's oldest stories.

Book 2

Willow the Giraffe

Watcher above the canopy

She sees the weather coming before anyone else, and never keeps it to herself.

Book 3, 4, 9, 12

Fern the Deer

Softest footsteps in the forest

Shy at first light, loyal by nightfall. Fern leads Billy home whenever the path forgets itself.

Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11

Professor Hoot

Night teacher

Awake when the forest sleeps, and full of advice nobody asked for but everybody needs.

Pip the Fox

Small, quick, curious

Pip finds things. Sometimes things that were never lost.

Book 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11

Kiki the Parrot

The forest's loudest news

If something happened, Kiki has already told three trees and a waterfall.

Book 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9