Rainbow Forest

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.