Five real pets. The greatest stories ever written.
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.
The warm pet world for kids and the grown-ups who love them, with the rare depth to also be there for the hard moments.
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.
Five real pets. One unforgettable cast.
Three dogs and two cats, led by 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.
Chaco
Australian Shepherd. Sees the pattern. Herds the problem into a shape that holds.
Roxie
Rottweiler-Shepherd mix. Grounded, methodical. The reading voice naturally lowers into hers.
Moose
Yellow Lab-Husky mix, large and lit-up. Big body, bigger heart. Charges in, gets it joyfully wrong, tries again.
Prince MoRee
Brown tabby cat. Precise, dry, watchful. The single line that lands and changes the room.
Armando
Black-and-white longhair cat. Already dressed for the occasion. Welcomes the reader at the start, closes the book with a warm word.
One warm world. Many ways in.
Same five pets. Same warm voice. The book your family needs, whether that’s a big adventure on a bright afternoon or a steady hand through a hard week. The joyful stories are the front door. The harder moments are always there too, found quietly by the families who need them, never pushed.
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.
For parents, grandparents, educators, and anyone who buys books for the readers in their life.
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.
For pediatric occupational therapists, child psychologists, OBGYNs and doulas, IEP coordinators, child life specialists, and the families they serve.
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.
Two ends of one leash. One world that holds both.
Developed with developmental-psychology and pediatric-OT review. Our Health-line books are reviewed against peer-reviewed research before they reach your family.
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, Chaco, Roxie, Moose, Prince MoRee, or Armando, 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.
The same five pets, now in your ears.
The Talking With Pets podcast is the books’ audio sibling. The pets meet the famous animals of history and tell their stories, warm family listening for kids and the grown-ups along for the ride.
Listen to the show →Be first when the books open.
The founding list opens with our first stories. Check back soon.