About the author
Wilma Nix
Lift your light, however small.
I write picture books about a small village where nobody is too little to matter.
Timblemoon is a hill of crooked cottages under one enormous oak, and everyone on it is carrying something. Pip is a bat with a lantern nearly too heavy for him. Soot runs the Long Hall kitchen and feeds the whole village, then learns the hard way that nobody does it alone. Bram is six, in a hat a size too big, and gives away the one thing he wanted most.
They are small, and slightly odd, and not one of them is ever told they're too much or not enough. That's the whole design. A child who has felt like the smallest one in the room should be able to find themselves somewhere on that hill and be glad they did.
What every Timblemoon book is for
Books that leave a child braver at the end than they were at the start.
No lesson tacked onto the last page. Nobody fixed by the final spread. Just warm light, a hill with room on it, and the quiet idea that whatever you have to offer is worth offering — however small it is.
Timblemoon, Timblemoon, up the hill and up with the moon. Lift your light, however small — Timblemoon has room for all.
The other shelf
My Fuzzy Friends
I also write My Fuzzy Friends — true-hearted stories about the animals who find us.
Scrabby was a stray until the day he wasn't. Peanut was small and frightened and starting over. These are quieter books than the Timblemoon ones, and they do a different job: they sit with a child who is learning that love is something you grow into, and that second chances are real.
The keepsake invitation
Every animal leaves a story behind.
If you would like yours kept, I write and illustrate keepsake picture books for families — one at a time, so each gets the attention it deserves.
Tell me about your fuzzy friend →The shelf
Three Timblemoon books so far
Three Timblemoon books so far, with coloring and activity companions, and Soot's own recipe cards — free to print at home, one card to a sheet.
As seen on Amazon Author Central
Wilma Nix writes picture books about a small village where nobody is too little to matter.
Her Timblemoon series follows a hill of crooked cottages under one enormous oak, where a very small bat carries a lantern nearly too heavy for him, a cat baker learns that nobody feeds a village alone, and a boy in an oversized hat gives away the one thing he wanted most. The books are written for ages 4 to 8 — old enough to notice the dark, young enough to be talked through it.
She also writes My Fuzzy Friends, true-hearted stories about the animals who find us: rescues, second chances, and the quiet courage of small creatures learning to be loved.
Every book turns on the same small hinge. Somebody has less than they think they need, gives it away anyway, and it turns out to be enough.
Lift your light, however small.
Find the books, free printables and Soot's recipe cards at timblemoonbooks.com.
Be a small light
Get first snow, first look, and a lantern in your name the moment each new book reaches the hill.
No noise. Just glow, a few times a season.