A forthcoming Pennymores illustrated storybook
The Pennymores Write Magic
A seven-year-old had one big idea: every kid should be able to enter the world of Pennymores. So our family made a new way in.
It began with Aven
“Every kid should be able to read the Pennymores.”
Aven was seven when she gave us the brief. The original novel carried her name into the world—but she wanted a version she and other young readers could experience now, together with the people they love.
That changed the project. We did not simply shorten Book One. We rebuilt its adventure as an illustration-led, read-aloud story where the central wonder is impossible to miss: in Pennymores, magic is not spoken. Magic is written.
Words, quills and ink can change what happens next.
Aven became our lead kid editor. Her sisters, Quinn and Parker, joined the story table. Their questions, laughs and “wait—what just happened?” moments became real revision notes.
The promise
A complete adventure built to be shared.
The story keeps the heart of Book One—siblings, courage, wonder and a dangerous invisible quill—then lets pictures carry the world and clear, rhythmic language carry the reader.
Write it
The children learn that the right word, written with the right quill, can make the impossible real.
Find it
When Riley and Lady Julie vanish, Parker and Quinn follow written clues into hidden, astonishing places.
Outwrite it
Dagamar wants the power for himself. The children must do more than collect magical objects—they must think like writers.
Read it together
Each spread is designed for one more page turn, one more discovery and one more conversation.
Inside the story
Every new place asks for a new kind of courage.
A castle library alive with words. A path of glowing punctuation across the sea. Dwarf tunnels split perfectly in two. A treehouse garden waiting for one word to bloom.
Aven’s notes changed the book
Our toughest reader was also our most useful one.
We read the working book aloud, spread by spread. We watched for delight, confusion, fear and the moments the girls wanted to tell back in their own words. Then we revised.
“Boots needs to be introduced as their cat.”
“Dagamar isn’t scary yet. We need to know he is bad sooner.”
“Why are the kids running in different directions?”
“I don’t understand how they saved the day.”
Those observations led to new scenes, clearer action, stronger humor and a climax centered on what makes Pennymores unique: the children do not win because they suddenly become more powerful. They win because they finally learn how to use words with imagination.
How we made it
One spread. One read-aloud. One honest reaction at a time.
Find the heart
Reduce Book One to the family, the quest and the wonder of written magic.
Build the page turn
Give every spread one clear story beat and one dominant visual purpose.
Make the picture
Adapt commissioned character designs into new scenes while protecting continuity.
Read with the girls
Listen for questions, laughter, fear, favorite details and spontaneous retelling.
Rewrite the magic
Revise the words and images until the story makes sense out loud and on the page.
Human-designed from the beginning
The characters came from an artist’s hand.
Artist Nurkaydar Tomiris developed the original character designs and visual identity that made the Pennymores family feel like themselves.
For this storybook, those commissioned designs became the visual source material for new illustrated scenes. Generative-image tools helped adapt the characters into new poses and locations, followed by human creative direction, continuity checks, revision and final approval.
The storybook honors her foundational work clearly—in the book, on this site and wherever the project is presented.
The book at a glance
Made for small hands, big imaginations and one more story.
The next word is almost ready
Be there when young readers write their way into Pennymores.
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Get Write Magic updatesThe Pennymores: Write Magic is forthcoming from Guildlight Press.