The Hallway of Stars
A gentle, non-scary illustrated chapter book for ages 8 to 11, written for kids who sense things at night and feel afraid or alone. I wrote it for my own two children, and for every child who has ever needed to hear that they are not the only one.
“There is nothing in the dark but love.”
Thirteen chapters, fourteen hand-drawn illustrations, and back matter for both kids and grown-ups, including a child's note and a tools page. The first in a planned five-book series exploring animal guides, meditation, free will and abundance. Always warm, always grounded.
Written by someone who understands.
I'm an Australian author, illustrator, medium and energy healer. I wrote and hand-illustrated this book for my own two children, who experience the night the way so many sensitive kids do. My hope is that every child who reads it closes the cover feeling seen, safe and a little braver, and that the grown-ups who love them find new words for the conversation.
It started with two small words.
One night my daughter was reading aloud to me and came to the phrase "filthy rich". Such a small thing, and yet it quietly teaches a child that abundance is something dirty. I've spent years gently unlearning beliefs like that one, and I don't want my children, or yours, to spend their adulthood doing the same.
There was a second reason. I know my own children sense more than most people do, and I know they are far from the only ones. Nearly every medium, healer and intuitive I've listened to tells the same story about childhood: feeling things they couldn't explain, mostly at night, with no one they felt they could tell. Night is when the world goes quiet and we become more in tune with ourselves, physically, mentally and spiritually. So night is where this book lives. I wanted something soft and warm that tells these kids: you are not alone, and there is nothing in the dark to fear.
And this is only the beginning. The books ahead will gently explore your spirit team, meditation and intuition, spirit animals, manifestation and free will, because we are creators of our own reality. One story at a time, I hope to help children grow up free of the beliefs that limit them, and confident in the senses they were born with. This book may not be for everyone. It's for the children, and the grown-ups beside them, who need it.