The Snugglekins Series — Character Spotlight
Pippa Penguin has star notes.
A notebook — navy, with a crescent moon on the cover — where she records everything she notices about the sky. Which stars are out? Which clouds are moving which way? The exact quality of the light at dusk on a Tuesday in autumn. She has been keeping star notes for as long as she can remember. It is the most private and most Pippa thing about her.
Pippa loves the world generously and without reservation. She finds things beautiful, and she wants everyone to experience the beautiful things she finds. She is warm and enthusiastic and genuinely, wholeheartedly glad when the people she loves are glad.
She is also, without quite knowing it, very good at the surface of things and less practised at what runs underneath.
She cannot always read the currents. The thing that is not being said. The private world that someone has built carefully and is not yet ready to share. Pippa takes the world at face value — and the world, in her experience, is mostly wonderful.
She is not wrong about the world being wonderful.
She is still learning about the rest.
Pippa is a round, soft navy and cream penguin with a star-patterned scarf and a matching star-patterned bag. She carries her star notes everywhere. Her eyes are bright and curious, and always looking upward at something interesting.
Her story is called Pippa Penguin and the Broken Trust.
It is about harm caused by love. About the slow, honest work of understanding something you cannot naturally see. And about a new page in the star notes — and a question she is learning to ask before she acts.
Does this belong to me to share?
The Snugglekins Series — coming soon from Lit Wick Press.
Safe. Loved. Heard. Enough.
