Our debut picture book · Coming September 2026
The Brave Fuzzy
A story about belonging, resilience, and the trillions of tiny helpers living inside us.
An interior spread from The Brave Fuzzy · art by Johanna Gousset
A story about belonging, resilience, and the trillions of tiny helpers living inside us.
An interior spread from The Brave Fuzzy · art by Johanna Gousset
A tale of leaving home, finding your place, and discovering that no one thrives alone.
When a small orange Fuzzy sets out from everything it knows, it must find its way in a world of unfamiliar faces. Along the way it meets others who look nothing like it — and slowly learns that a community is strongest precisely because everyone in it is different.
Like all Pen & Pipette books, The Brave Fuzzy works on two levels. On the surface, it’s a warm, gently funny adventure about courage and friendship. Underneath, it’s a living metaphor for the gut microbiome — the bustling community of trillions of microbes that work together to keep us healthy.
The book closes with a kid-friendly science page that connects the Fuzzies’ journey back to the real research that inspired it, so curious readers (and grown-ups) can keep exploring.
From the first pencil sketch to the final painted spread, every page was a long process of experiments, wrong turns, and happy accidents. Here’s a peek into the studio.
