A voice made for bedtime
Professional narration, unhurried and warm. No chirpy cartoon energy — just a story that knows how to settle a room.
The companions
Meet Coco and Lala
They are grown Norwegian Forest cats — long-haired, substantial, and in no hurry. Every morning they walk to the same wooden bridge. They do not speak much. They sit, side by side, until the pond has told them whatever it meant to tell.
Written by Rick Kirschner and illustrated by Sophia Weaver, the book is a dusk-lit world of 22 watercolors — willows, strawberries, and a mermaid who keeps watch over the waterfall.
Hear a sample
Coco
Twenty pounds of black fur. She likes to watch. First to sit.
Lala
Smaller, and almost all coat. She likes to discover. Last to leave.
A still pond, full of life
Willows lean in. Roses climb. A mermaid sits in the moss above the waterfall and does not explain herself. Children who finish the book often ask to hear it again — not because it is loud, but because it leaves a little room.
The read-aloud edition adds a narrator who treats that room with care: pauses where the pictures breathe, and never rushes the last page.
