Snowbone Book

One pale wooden girl stands on the shore of Black Sand Bay, where the sea meets the sky and the wind meets the water. But Snowbone knows that she and her wooden friends can't stay here forever. Something is happening deep within the forest. Something—someone—that must be stopped. Determined to save the Ashenpeakers from a dark destiny, Snowbone leads her gang of wooden tiddlins on a perilous chase—on the heels of human slave traders. They encounter feathered flying machines, a mystifying ancient prophecy, a looming volcano, and hungry cannibals. Snowbone, strong and courageous (and a bit stubborn), urges them on, while learning what it means to be a good leader.

In a companion novel to Barkbelly, Cat Weatherill weaves another magical tale about the world of Ashenpeake and its lovable wooden heroes.

Children's Literature

When pirates attack a galleon loaded with cargo, they never dreamed the crates held dozens of wooden eggs. As fire from the battle rages through the ship and heats the eggs, their contents transform until the wooden shells crack open and out pop tiddlin babies! Thus begins the tale of Snowbone, a hatched wooden girl and fiercely determined leader of the tiddlins who make it out of the hull alive and began growing at an amazing pace. Prized for their hard work and indestructibility, tiddlins had been victimized by slave traders for years, and after the pirates take the tiddlins to Ashenpeake Island, their homeland, it is soon clear they have not escaped danger completely. Forays from their beach camp into the forest reveal a dark destiny for all tiddlins and The Ancestors, and Snowbone vows to fight the slave traders. She leads her gang of wooden tiddlins across the island and they meet friends and foes, rescue princes locked in treasure chests, outwit cannibals who want to eat their friend Manu, outwit spewing volcanoes, travel in feathered flying machines, and brave fantastic adventures of all kinds. British performance storyteller Cat Weather's experience in creating vivid, magical worlds is evident in her poetic use of language and passion for detail. A companion book to Barkbelly, this engaging and original fantasy novel teems with creativity and begs to be read aloud.