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Talking With Pets

Talking With Pets is a children's book line where five real pets, three dogs (led by a scrappy Australian Shepherd) and two cats, step into the greatest stories ever written and make them entirely their own.

Our mission

To deepen the bond between pets and the humans who love them, healing both ends of the leash through personalized, educational, and clinically grounded storytelling.

Meet the cast

Five real pets. One unforgettable cast.

Two dogs, two cats, and a scrappy Australian Shepherd. The same five travel through every book in every series. Your child meets them once, then welcomes them back, again and again, into every story they read.

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Chaco

The Grouper

Australian Shepherd. Sees the pattern. Herds the problem into a shape that holds.

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Roxie

The Steady

Rottweiler-Shepherd mix. Grounded, methodical. The reading voice naturally lowers into hers.

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Moose

The Enthusiast

Yellow Lab-Husky, large and lit-up. Big body, bigger heart. Charges in, gets it joyfully wrong, tries again.

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Prince MoRee

The Spotter

Brown tabby cat. Precise, dry, watchful. The single line that lands and changes the room.

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Armando

The Host

Black-and-white longhair cat. Already dressed for the occasion. Welcomes the reader at the start. Closes the book with a warm word.

How the books work

Two ways the stories show up.

One for big ideas and big adventures. One for the moments that ask more of a family.

Education

Classic stories that carry big ideas into your child's world.

Classic literature your child should grow up inside, brought to life with five real pets as the bridge. Adventure, governance, courage, the shape of the world. The picture books and chapter books that introduce these truths through story, never through lecture.

Learning & Growth

For parents, grandparents, educators, and anyone who buys books for the readers in their life.

Health

Stories that anchor a child through life's hardest moments.

The same five pets, the same warm voice, turned toward the moments that ask more of a family. A new sibling arriving, a transition between two homes, a regulation challenge, a hospital stay, a goodbye. Personalized to the family. Delivered through the people who care for children professionally.

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For pediatric occupational therapists, child psychologists, OBGYNs and doulas, IEP coordinators, child life specialists, and the families they serve.

Where the two meet

The Steadfast Series

Designed for any child who needs help regulating. Built alongside developmental specialists, with predictable visual anchors, consistent rhythm, and sensory-careful composition. Distributed through the people who already work with families like yours.

Expert-guided, story-led

Developed with developmental-psychology and pediatric-OT review. Our Health-line books are reviewed against peer-reviewed research before they reach your family.

How we make our books

The differentiator

Your family, in the story.

One Personalization Engine, working across every book in every series. Your pet on the page. Your child's name woven through. The book becomes your family's the moment it's opened.

Your pet, on the page.

You upload a photo of your pet. You choose a book. One of the five pets โ€” Chaco, Roxie, Moose, Prince MoRee, or Armando โ€” steps aside, and your pet steps in. The story is unchanged. The pet on the page becomes the one in your house, across every spread.

Works across every book in the Education and Health categories. Launching with the first Sovereign book.

Your family's moment.

For the moments that ask more of a family. A new sibling arriving in three weeks. A transition between two homes. A hospital stay. A goodbye. The story is shaped to the moment your family is living. Built with developmental specialists.

In development. Founding-list members hear first when it opens.

Five reading tiers. One cast all the way through.

A child who meets the five pets at PAWS can still be reading the same five at CHRONICLES. The depth scales with the child; the cast stays constant.

PAWS
ages 3โ€“4
TAILS
ages 4โ€“6
TALES
ages 5โ€“8
QUESTS
ages 6โ€“9
CHRONICLES
ages 8โ€“12
Coming soon

Celebrity Pets:
The Unfiltered Record

A dog and a cat run a paranormal pet interview practice. Every episode, they contact the ghost of a famous historical figure's pet. History through the eyes of the animals who were actually there.

Hosted by Moose (yellow Lab) and Armando (black-and-white longhair cat).

Listen to the Podcast โ†’
Darwin's DogPilot Episode

What did Charles Darwin's dog think about the theory of evolution?

Napoleon's ParrotEpisode 2

Napoleon's parrot had opinions about the campaigns that history forgot.

Lincoln's CatComing Soon

President Lincoln had cats. They saw everything.