Welcome, GRAND readers
Belle kept a light on for you.
Rewind Hollow is an attic full of handmade toys who remember the 1980s and 90s: mixtapes off the radio, roller rinks, the hall light left on. There are picture books for ages 4 to 8, a colouring book, recipe cards and quiet music, all made to share across a kitchen table.
a note from Estella
Somebody once left the hall light on for you, and never once mentioned it.
Rewind Hollow is about toys who keep things like that: a song timed off the radio, a button from a coat nobody owns any more, a candle lit all night. I made it for the people who remember those things to share with the people who are just starting to collect their own.
Read one aloud together. Colour a page side by side. Then ask them what they would keep.
Estella Hollow
The picture books · ages 4 to 8
Neon’s stories
Neon Ricochet is a pink stitched bunny on roller skates. She never learned to stop; she learned to fall, and to get up again. Each book is a short read-aloud in full colour on large 8.5 inch pages.
Collection One
All three in one · out 24 November
Both Knees, One Whole Turn and How to Stop, bound together. Made to be given.
Get it firstMore of the attic
Something for every visit
Little Rewind
The colouring book. Forty-four big, bold scenes made for markers, out 20 October.
Grown-ups and older kids, side by side
Recipes from the Attic
Belle saved her recipe cards for you to print. Easy enough to cook together.
Free to print
Attic Radio
Gentle music made from scratch, for colouring, cooking or a quiet afternoon.
Free to listen
Hour-long ambience
Rain on the attic window, a creek, a cafe. An hour of calm for reading time or naps. (opens YouTube in a new tab)
Free on YouTube
Who it’s for
Reading together, by age
- Ages 4 to 8The picture books. Read aloud together in one sitting; the pictures carry as much as the words.
- Grown-ups and older kidsLittle Rewind. Bold lines and open spaces, so small hands and tired eyes both do well with markers.
- Everyone at the tableThe recipe cards and Attic Radio. Cook something, put the music on, and tell them what your kitchen sounded like.
Meet Static
Six in the morning, volume on two, until the screen hums itself quiet. Nobody makes him get up.
That’s eight of them, and the attic keeps more than it shows. Meet the rest.
Belle kept these for you
Four pages to colour together
I write when a new book lands, and not often. One click to stop.