The Old Forest Path

The Old Forest Path, written by musician Jamie Catto and illustrated by Kanako Wakabayashi, is a lyrical illustrated storybook for readers aged eight and up celebrating the power of music to set us free.

Set in an enchanted forest where ethereal, ballerina-like fairies normally keep to a single designated path, the story follows one free-spirited fairy who breaks from convention to embrace the forest's music without restraint.

When a piper arrives playing irresistible melodies, the two recognise each other as kindred spirits, and together they lead all the fairies off the path to explore the forest freely.

With Golden Age-inspired artwork and lyrical prose, it's a gentle fable about creative freedom, imagination and liberation through art.