Rewind Hollow
Eight handmade toys gathered on a rug in a candlelit attic at night, beneath a round window showing a crescent moon: a speaker toy, a rag doll with a candle, a sock monkey in a beanie, a dandelion-haired doll, a cassette toy, a television toy with rabbit ears, a mossy green creature and a pink bunny on roller skates.

The attic · at rewind hour

Somebody sewed every one of them.

Every one of them has a spiral somewhere: an eye, a wheel, the grain of a belly. Whoever made them put it there to keep hold of something that had already gone.

So far, eight of them

Who’s up there

That’s eight of them, and the attic keeps more than it shows.

Hover a card to watch them. On a phone, tap. Then tell us which one is yours.

Reely, a cassette-tape toy with two pink spiral reel eyes and a pink bow, winding her tape with a pencil beside a boombox in the attic. watch

REELY

She made somebody a tape once, timed off the radio with her finger over the button. She still knows every song on it, in order. She never handed it over.

Neon Ricochet, a pink bunny toy with a button eye, a purple scrunchie, a glowing necklace and a friendship bracelet, sitting on the attic floor. watch

NEON RICOCHET

There is nothing on her skates to stop with. So she learned to fall instead, and to be quick about it. Up again before anyone can ask.

Hollow Belle, a rag doll with rope ringlet pigtails, one button eye and one spiral-stitched eye, holding a lit candle below a round attic window with a crescent moon. watch

HOLLOW BELLE

Keeps a candle lit all night for the same reason somebody left the hall light on for you. She would not say so.

Boombeau, a boxy charcoal speaker toy with antennae and round speaker ears, a coral heart glowing in the spiral cone of his chest, raising a hand. watch

BOOMBEAU

He puts the radio on every night, low, and lets it play. He does not dance to it. He just thinks the attic is better with something in it.

Tanglewood, a mossy green creature with twig antlers, one button eye, one spiral eye and a wood-grain spiral belly, holding a small glowing light in the grass. watch

TANGLEWOOD

Comes back when the streetlight comes on. That is the whole clock. Nobody knows where he is. Nobody worries.

Dandelion Mend, a rag doll with dandelion-fluff hair shedding seeds, one gold spiral button eye, in pink patchwork overalls at a table of buttons and thread. watch

DANDELION MEND

She keeps one button off a coat that doesn’t exist any more. Her jar says Buttons Fix Wishes. The jar is still full.

Static, a fuzzy purple-grey television-shaped toy with tall rabbit ears, his screen showing a squinting smile, a juice carton tucked in his pocket. watch

STATIC

Six in the morning, volume on two, until the screen goes to that long flat tone. Nobody makes him get up.

Pixel Vex, a cream sock-monkey toy in an orange knitted beanie and dark glasses over mismatched button eyes, waving in front of lit arcade cabinets. watch

PIXEL VEX

Held the top score all summer. The machine went in September before anyone wrote the number down. He never found out if it would have stood.

The first story

Both Knees

Neon Ricochet never learned to stop, so she learned to fall. A picture book about the part nobody photographs: the getting up, and how it still counts when nobody claps.

Cover of Both Knees: a pink stitched rabbit sits on an attic floor lacing a purple roller skate, a jar of buttons and a stack of boomboxes beside her.
the cover
Page from Both Knees: a close view of striped legs and worn purple roller skates. The text reads, Neon Ricochet never learned to stop. Look at her skates. Nothing there to stop with.
page 3
Page from Both Knees: Neon stands on a patchwork blanket with her arms out, applauding shadow figures behind her.
page 13

The cover and two pages. The rest is the book.

  • Twenty-four pages, printed in full colour, edge to edge
  • Read aloud in about four minutes
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, glossy cover
  • The moral is on the back cover and nowhere in the story
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The second story

One Whole Turn

Neon is the best skater in the attic, right up until she tries a circle. A picture book about being a beginner in front of people who have only ever watched you be good at it.

Cover of One Whole Turn: a pink stitched rabbit on roller skates spins on one foot in a warm attic, arms lifted, a glowing collar at her neck, milk crates and a boombox behind her.
the cover
Page from One Whole Turn: Neon stands on the attic boards beside a chalk circle. The text reads, Neon is fast in a straight line. How hard can a circle be?
page 6
Page from One Whole Turn: Hollow Belle kneels on the floor in a pool of light while the other toys file away behind her. The text reads, Nobody says a word. Belle stays.
page 19

The cover and two pages. The rest is the book.

  • Twenty-four pages, printed in full colour, edge to edge
  • Read aloud in about four minutes
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, glossy cover
  • The one who stays never says a word about it
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The third story

How to Stop

Tanglewood rolls down a hill and will not get up, and every kind of help Neon has is the fast kind. A picture book about how staying still for somebody is the hardest thing she can give.

Cover of How to Stop: a pink stitched rabbit and a small round moss creature lie side by side in the grass on a hillside, looking up at a cloud shaped like a roller skate.
the cover
Page from How to Stop: Neon comes down a grassy hill in four stages, a jump, a roll, a slide and standing tall with her arms up. The text reads, So Neon shows how. Tuck. Roll. Slide. Up again. Easy.
page 10
Page from How to Stop: Tanglewood lies propped on one arm in the grass, watching. The text reads, Tanglewood watches the whole show. Not yet. Okay.
page 11

The cover and two pages. The rest is the book.

  • Twenty-four pages, printed in full colour, edge to edge
  • Read aloud in about four minutes
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, glossy cover
  • Nobody in it is hurried to get up
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All three, in one book

Collection One

Both Knees, One Whole Turn and How to Stop, bound together. Three of Neon’s stories in one book, made to be given.

Cover of Rewind Hollow Stories, Collection One: a pink stitched rabbit skates fast across a grassy hill holding a long purple ribbon, while a rag doll and a small moss creature fly behind her on it, laughing.
the cover
  • Three complete picture books, seventy-four pages in full colour
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, glossy cover
  • On the back: she cannot stop, she can stay
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The colouring book

Little Rewind

Forty-four original illustrations. One complete scene per page, drawn with bold lines and open spaces, made for markers, not fine liners.

Cover of Little Rewind: four attic toys stand together under a string of lights in a moonlit attic, beneath the title lettering.
the cover
Line art page: buttons being sorted out of a jar onto a craft table.
05 / 44
Line art page: a backyard campout at night, a tent and a torch under the trees.
09 / 44
Line art page: a mixtape being timed off the radio, a finger over the record button.
12 / 44
Line art page: two toys tumbling about together on an attic rug.
15 / 44
Line art page: a toy blows into a game cartridge in front of a row of arcade cabinets.
20 / 44
Line art page: a streetlight coming on over a garden fence at dusk.
25 / 44
Line art page: a skater on the floor of the rink, getting back up.
30 / 44
Line art page: toys waving from a lit attic doorway at night, a crescent moon behind them.
40 / 44

Eight of the forty-four. The rest are in the book.

  • 44 original illustrations, one complete scene per page
  • Bold lines and open spaces, drawn for markers, not fine liners
  • Single-sided, so every page can be removed and framed
  • Large 8.5 × 8.5 inch pages, matte cover
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Also from the attic

What else is coming

Music · fourteen tracks

Side A

The attic’s own soundtrack. A music box, a synth-pop theme, a boom-bap cue, a rink parade, and ten more. Every note of it built from scratch, so it is ours to give away.

Ready. Put something on, bottom right.

Whoever turns up next

The empty shelf

The cast is not closed. That is eight of them, and the attic keeps more than it shows — the shelf with nothing on it is there for a reason.

No date, on purpose.

From the attic, not just about it

The shop

Sticker sheets, ceramic ornaments and an art print, drawn from the same attic as the books. Small things to keep, not just to read.

Preview sheet of eight Halloween-costumed attic toy stickers: a patched ghost, a mummy-wrapped robot, a roller-skating bunny, a monkey carving a pumpkin, a mossy pumpkin creature, a doll with a jack-o-lantern, a bow-wearing cassette creature and a witch-hatted doll with a bat.

Halloween sheet

Sticker sheet

In the shop

Preview sheet of eight eerie-cute attic stickers: a popcorn-and-ghost wreath, a mummy-wrapped robot with a glowing heart, a candlelit carved pumpkin, a button-eyed doll beside a jack-o-lantern, a monkey in a striped beanie carving a pumpkin, a bow-wearing cassette creature trailing a sheet, a bedsheet ghost with glowing eyes, and a small green creature sitting in a pumpkin nest.

Creepy cute sheet

Sticker sheet

In the shop

Preview sheet of eight harvest-dinner attic toy stickers: a doll carrying a bowl of soup, a robot serving pie from a cloche, a cassette creature with a cherry pie, a monkey whisking a mixing bowl, a television-headed creature holding a fork, a bunny with a basket of rolls, a leafy green creature with a harvest basket, and a curly-haired doll rolling pastry.

Thanksgiving sheet

Sticker sheet

In the shop

Preview sheet of eight winter-themed attic toy stickers: a robot cradling a gift, a ribbon-tangled cassette, a bear with string lights, a doll knitting, a monkey popping out of a gift box, a bunny pulling a sled of presents, a doll topping a small tree and a creature crowned with ornaments.

Holiday sheet

Sticker sheet

In the shop

Preview sheet of eight midnight-party attic toy stickers: a television-headed creature with a streamer horn, a robot in a party hat raising a glass, a bunny waving a sparkler, a monkey with a noisemaker, a leafy creature blowing a party blower, a doll in a garland of lights, a bow-wearing cassette trailing streamers, and a curly-haired doll in a party hat.

New Year sheet

Sticker sheet

In the shop

Circular ornament preview of Static, a television-headed attic toy with a glowing screen face, holding a string of warm fairy lights in the snow.

Static in the snow

Ceramic ornament

In the shop

Circular ornament preview of Static, a television-headed attic toy, asleep on a purple beanbag in the attic with his screen dimmed and a juice carton beside him.

Static, off duty

Ceramic ornament

In the shop

Circular ornament preview of Boombeau, a stereo-bodied attic toy with a glowing heart in his speaker cone, kneeling to unwrap a brown paper parcel.

Boombeau and the parcel

Ceramic ornament

In the shop

Circular ornament preview of Tanglewood, a stitched wooden attic toy with antlers and a spiral belly, holding a lit sparkler at a round attic window with a crescent moon behind him.

Tanglewood and the sparkler

Ceramic ornament

In the shop

Art print preview of Hollow Belle, a button-eyed rag doll, sitting on an attic trunk by moonlight and holding a lit candle.

Hollow Belle, by candlelight

Art print

In the shop

Preview sheet of eight 80s and 90s object stickers: a taped-up film camera, a braided friendship bracelet, a cracked handheld game, a patched scrunchie, a viewfinder toy, a lava lamp, an egg-shaped digital pet and a pair of gladiator sandals.

Retro objects sheet

Sticker sheet

In progress

Previews, not photos of finished stock. The listings carry the real product photos.

Visit the shop on Etsy

Ten designs in the shop now — the holiday ones come down as their seasons pass