Welcome to the wondrously weird world of Katja Faye Wood.
Open the door and discover ….
healing hob-goblins, intrepid insects, mysterious mushrooms, talking toadstools
& much, much more…….
‘They jumped over the ditch into the wood.
At once they felt different. Magic was round them.
The birds’ songs sounded different.
The trees once again whispered secretly to one another: “Wisha-wisha-wisha-wisha!”‘
Enid Blyton, The Enchanted Wood.
First Published 1939.
The Books
Sisters Chamomile and Meadowsweet are Hedge-Hobs who tend to the neighbouring animals with their curious cures and magical medicines. Cousins Periwinkle and Leatherleaf are Hob-Herbalists who run two funny, old shops selling potent potions and linctus lotions in the town of Bog Myrtle for all of the friendly folk. This family of goblins love to help all they can in the Gardens of Gardinia.
Their motto is: Hob: Herb: Heal
Meet Wee Wilberforce McGrub, plant poet and intrepid explorer. He spends his days in The Botanical Kingdom with his pencil and leaf-book, foraging fields, wandering woods and meandering moors, writing Slug Sonnets about the plant characters he encounters. From strange shrubs to tremendous trees, fearsome fungi and wicked weeds, Wilberforce is always ready for an adventure!
Mushrooms & Menopause: A Mycological Medley
From Nightea Sweataria to Mindus Foggius, Droopus Boobius and Netflixous Bingeous, this fungal family suffers and endures many of the key symptoms of the menopause. Find solace, comfort and above all humour as they share their trying tribulations. All hail the Mighty Mushrooms and Shitake Sisters!
Videos
Katja Faye Wood is a retired librarian, editor and art historian who lives in a rambling farmhouse in East Lothian, Scotland with her twenty-five birds and her dog Smurf.
Her books feature Otherworlds, magical portals leading to Gardinia with its Goblins, The Botanical Kingdom with its Plant Poets and Avairia with its bounteous birds, all of them populated by magical beings and a cast of curious creatures.
Fascinated by Fungi, she also is the author of the adult gift-book Mushrooms & Menopause…
Goblin Recipes
The Goblins of Gardinia are Healing Hedge-Hobs. Chamomile concocts her cures and Meadowsweet measures her medicines, all to help the woodland creatures in this most magical land. Bulla Frog gulps his ‘Burp-No-More Brew’ and Demeter the Dormouse sips her ‘Special Snoozleberry Tea’; Nightwynd the Bat swears by her ‘Wondrous Wing Wonder’ and Hector the Hedgehog is lost without his ‘Prime Prickle Potion’. Using the most enchanted ingredients- from earwig echinacea to elfin eucalyptus- check out some more of the recipes in these superb slide-shows!
Their motto is: Hob: Herb: Heal
Happydesigner
It is with immense good fortune that I have managed to collaborate with the exceptionally talented and award-winning illustrator Sarah-Leigh Wills.
With her wealth of professional expertise and decades in the business and having undertaken more than 800 illustrated book projects for clients worldwide, Sarah is just the most perfect artist to bring my characters so fantastically and truly magically to life!
