A story from the Great Wood
Snuffles, chatters, and the very best of friends.
All seven books are out now.
The heart of every adventure
One is steady. One is speedy. Together, they make the very best team in the Great Wood.
Clarence is a slow, thoughtful hedgehog who lives in a cozy log at the edge of the Great Wood. He wears a tiny red scarf (even in summer!) and loves tidying his acorn pile.
Pinafor is a fast, playful squirrel with a tail so bushy it could sweep the forest floor. She wears a little blue bow tie and never, ever sits still!
Together, they are the best of friends — and the very best team.
A little glimpse into the Great Wood
Six softly blurred moments from Clarence and Pinafor’s first three adventures — just enough for a woodland teaser.
Series 1 · The Woodland Adventures of Clarence & Pinafor
Five main adventures and two festive specials — each wrapped around a little lesson worth sharing.
Series 2 & 3 are in preparation for 2027.
Behind the stories
Barnaby Wobble is a 64-year-old zookeeper with more than forty years of muddy wellies, hay-fever sneezes and spectacularly clumsy animal mishaps under his belt.
He tells bedtime-style stories to the meerkats during his lunch breaks.
Jess, a young and tech-savvy junior keeper, writes them down, does all the typing, handles “the KDP thingy” — and keeps an eye on the custard creams.
Together, they make a rather wobbly but wonderful storytelling team.
New
Jess, our young and tech-savvy junior keeper, writes Barnaby's stories down between feeds. On her one day off, she catches a train out of London — and finds the one place in every town she'd go back for. Town guides, diary entries, and thirty animal-approved favourites.
Jess arrived in London with a zookeeper’s curiosity and a traveller’s heart — and twenty-five towns waiting one train ride away. Each trip she rides the rails, notebook in hand: the castle, pier or zoo that made the day, the lunch worth the journey alone, and the one spot she’d go back for. Barnaby narrates, Jess explores — and every guide ends with her favourite, the single thing she’d tell a friend not to miss.
Before she was a zookeeper in London, Jess grew up in America falling asleep to her dad’s stories — of geysers that roar, bears that fish, and canyons deeper than imagination. Those stories planted something. In her college years she finally packed a bag and went to see them all herself. These are her journals from the American road: ten national parks, ten adventures, and the animals she met along the way.
Every December, Jess trades day trips for Christmas markets. Five European cities from London — the zoo in the morning, lunch in the old town, the market as the lights come on. And five American ones, remembered from her college years. Ten journals from the festive road — the stalls, the smells, the mulled everything — and the one market in each city she’d cross a continent to revisit.
Europe — from London
America — college years
Coming soon
Jess's next day off is already on the calendar. New towns land here as she visits them.