The Rainbow Forest

(Paperback)

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A precocious white cat named Puff is enticed by a monarch butterfly to a brilliantly colored forest in rural Vermont. Danger lurks, but Puff stumbles upon a gallant deer named Jumper, who explains the rules of the forest during a fast-paced race against time to a cave hidden behind a towering waterfall. Behind the falls Puff discovers a passageway leading to an abandoned mine, where a frightened bat causes him to step back and fall into a seemingly bottomless pit of dark shadows. Puff dangles from a thin crag in the depths while Jumper rushes to his rescue, accidentally leaning into the unforgiving force of the falls and leaving Puff to find his own way home.

The Rainbow Forest is an illustrated 32k-word fantasy adventure written in rhymed verse for middle graders. It is the first of three completed novellas that take Puff around the world as he discovers different customs and cultures, languages, and geography in the continuing award-winning series The Adventures of Puff.

Author Bio

-Lectured at the University of North Florida on Poetry for Middle Graders
-Live video of Yulee Elementary School's fifth-grade class discussing The Rainbow Forest
as seen on TheAdventuresofPuff.com (Behind the Scenes)
-Student of Daniel Greene (Instructor of Painting at the National Academy of Design)
-Member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Institute of Children's Literature,
and The Children's Writer's Guild.