Animals move through the world with a knowing we often fail to notice. They listen to a quiet inner voice and respond.
They follow land, water, wind, and the truth they carry inside. They move without explanation. They move because something within says this way.
From watching them, we can learn how to move through the world.
THEIR WAY is a home for stories that honour the wisdom of animals. Stories that do not explain or instruct, but witness. Stories shaped by feats no human would attempt, yet few understood.
Each book begins with a real moment in the natural world when an animal did something so precise, so unlikely, so quietly astonishing that it could not be ignored. These are not imagined creatures placed into symbolic roles. They are real beings whose actions carried their own meaning.
What they accomplished was more than an event. It was truth revealed through movement.
Written in the language of children’s books, speaking to the adult heart, each story guides us back to our own inner voice.
THEIR WAY is a place to slow down.
A place to listen for what still knows the way.
A place to remember the voice beneath the noise.
Welcome to THEIR WAY.
TJ
"My name is Baleine. I am a Humpback Whale."
In the spring of 2020, I swam the impossible.
I left the saltwater of my Atlantic Ocean home and began a journey no Humpback Whale had ever made before. I swam a thousand kilometres up the mighty freshwater of the Saint Lawrence River. I was young, a girl, and alone.
I made my first appearance in front of the greatest city in the world, Montréal, with a single, spectacular, and defiant breach.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
Marine scientists do not know exactly why I came. But one person thinks he does. He sat on the same rock, his black bike beside him, day after day and watched me. He did not wave or cheer like everyone else. He just watched me, quiet and still, because he knew I was following my inner voice. The voice that told me to swim. The voice that guided every moment of my journey.
He named me Baleine.
He believes I wrote my story, and that he was simply a witness.
I disagree.
Baleine
* At six thousand words, forty-eight pages, and an illustration on every page, Baleine is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"My name is Alice. I am a Moose."
I left the Adirondacks and I walked. I walked through forests, fields, roads, rail lines, and a major highway. I crossed an international border. I swam across the Saint Lawrence River. I kept going until I reached Algonquin Provincial Park.
My ancestral home.
I walked more than six hundred kilometres.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
People tried to understand my walk. They traced my steps on maps and followed my signal. But one person followed me in a different way. He studied the cadence of my journey, not the distance. He understood the kind of certainty that lives in an animal who moves with resolve.
He knew I was listening to my inner voice. The voice that told me to walk. The voice that guided my every stride.
My path was long, and I stayed with it.
That is who I am.
Alice
* At ten thousand words, fifty-eight pages, and an illustration on every page, Alice is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"My name is Lenox. I am a Snowy Owl."
In January of 2021, I appeared where I was not supposed to appear.
I left my home in The Arctic Tundra and flew more than 6,000 kilometres. I arrived in Central Park, New York City. No Snowy Owl had been seen here in more than one hundred and thirty years.
I was young, alone, a girl, and I was not lost.
I stood beneath the skyscrapers and perched on the stadium lights.
I was unbothered by crows, hawks, or the gathering crowds.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
New York City gathered with cameras and questions to watch me. They counted the days and debated my route.
But one person did not look for a reason. He saw my presence, my stillness, and what I was doing. I was not there to perform. I was there to observe.
I did not come to be seen. I came to see.
Lenox
At twelve thousand words, fifty-eight pages, and an illustration on every page. This book is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"My name is Zelda. I am a Cormorant."
A three-pronged treble hook pierced my bill and my tongue, fusing my mouth both open and shut at the same time.
I am a master hunter whose life is defined by the strike, and I was silenced by a silver trap that made it impossible for me to swim or eat.
By every law of nature, I was already gone.
I had two choices.
Crawl into the reeds and die.
Or do something no animal had ever done before.
I am Zelda. I am Queen. I chose the latter.
I walked to the glass door of a hospital’s ER and knocked.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
What I did made news around the world. But one person noticed a detail few others did.
I knocked on two different doors on two different days.
The first day I was not seen.
So, the next day, I came back.
That small detail, having the courage to return and ask again, is why he wrote my story. It is what humans forget and what animals remember.
It takes courage to knock.
It takes a Queen to knock twice.
Zelda
At 11,000 thousand words, 68 pages, and an illustration on every page, Zelda is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"Animals do not think their way toward the truth, they simply move with it."
Animals move through the world with a knowing we often fail to notice. They listen to their quiet inner voice and respond.
They follow the land, the water, the wind, and the truth they hold inside. They move without explanation. They move because their inner voice says this way.
From watching them, we see how to move through the world.
THEIR WAY is a home for stories that honour the wisdom of animals. Stories that do not explain or instruct, but witness. Stories shaped by movement, attention, and listening. Written for adults but disguised as children’s books, each one guides us to listen to our own inner voice.
THEIR WAY is a place to slow down and breathe a little deeper. A place to notice what still knows how to guide us. A place to remember the voice beneath the noise and live a little more like they do.
The truth is already out there, let's go find it together.
Welcome to THEIR WAY.
TJ
"My name is Baleine. I am a Humpback Whale."
In the spring of 2020, I swam the impossible.
I left the saltwater of my Atlantic Ocean home and began a journey no Humpback Whale had ever made before. I swam a thousand kilometres up the mighty freshwater of the Saint Lawrence River. I was young, a girl, and alone.
I made my first appearance in front of the greatest city in the world, Montréal, with a single, spectacular, and defiant breach.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
Marine scientists do not know exactly why I came. But one person thinks he does. He sat on the same rock, his black bike beside him, day after day and watched me. He did not wave or cheer like everyone else. He just watched me, quiet and still, because he knew I was following my inner voice. The voice that told me to swim. The voice that guided every moment of my journey.
He named me Baleine.
He believes I wrote my story, and that he was simply a witness.
I disagree.
Baleine
* At six thousand words, forty-eight pages, and an illustration on every page, Baleine is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"My name is Alice. I am a Moose."
I left the Adirondacks and I walked. I walked through forests, fields, roads, rail lines, and a major highway. I crossed an international border. I swam across the Saint Lawrence River. I kept going until I reached Algonquin Provincial Park.
My ancestral home.
I walked more than six hundred kilometres.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
People tried to understand my walk. They traced my steps on maps and followed my signal. But one person followed me in a different way. He studied the cadence of my journey, not the distance. He understood the kind of certainty that lives in an animal who moves with resolve.
He knew I was listening to my inner voice. The voice that told me to walk. The voice that guided my every stride.
My path was long, and I stayed with it.
That is who I am.
Alice
* At ten thousand words, fifty-eight pages, and an illustration on every page, Alice is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
ORDER NOW"My name is Lenox. I am a Snowy Owl."
In the winter of 2021, I appeared where I was not supposed to appear.
I left my home in the frozen silence of the Arctic tundra and flew more than five thousand kilometres to my destination, New York City. I landed in the North Meadow of Central Park. A place my kind had not visited in one hundred and thirty years.
I was young, alone, a girl, and I was not lost.
I spent my days on the sand of a baseball diamond because it felt like home. I sat beneath the skyscrapers and perched on the stadium lights, unbothered by the crows, hawks, and crowds.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
New York City gathered with cameras and questions to watch me. They counted the days and debated my route. But one person saw me differently. He did not look for a reason, he looked for the focus. He understood that I was not there to perform, but to observe.
He knew I was listening to my inner voice. The voice that told me to fly. The voice that guided my every observation.
I did not come to be seen. I came to see.
That is who I am.
Lenox
*This book is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.
Arriving April 2026
"My name is Zelda. I am a Cormorant."
A three-pronged treble hook pierced my bill and my tongue, fusing my mouth both open and shut at the same time.
I am a master hunter whose life is defined by the strike, and I was silenced by a silver trap that made it impossible for me to swim or eat.
By every law of nature, I was already gone.
I had two choices.
Crawl into the reeds and die.
Or do something no animal had ever done before.
I am Zelda. I am Queen. I chose the latter.
I walked to the glass door of a hospital’s ER and knocked.
Yes, I really did this. It is not fiction.
What I did made news around the world. But one person noticed a detail few others did.
I knocked on two different doors on two different days.
The first day I was not seen.
So, the next day, I came back.
That small detail, having the courage to return and ask again, is why he wrote my story. It is what humans forget and what animals remember.
It takes courage to knock.
It takes a Queen to knock twice.
Zelda
At 11,000 thousand words, 68 pages, and an illustration on every page, Zelda is designed as a fully illustrated children’s book... but one that speaks differently to grown-ups.