Read it and colour it
Each book has 64 pages: a continuous comic story in clean line art that children colour in themselves. By the end, the book is genuinely theirs.
Five books. Four children. One dog.
Elementum V
An adventure to read and to colour in. On the surface: a tunnel, a treasure map, pyramids, ice pirates and a dragon. Underneath: a world that fell apart because somebody meant well.
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The story
Leon, Milo, Mara and Sina are waiting at a bus stop, each of them lost in their own phone. Aaron, an unusually small but fully grown golden retriever, wants to play. Nobody reacts. So he leaves. Searching for him, the four find overgrown railway tracks behind the stop, the remains of an old station - and a tunnel. At the far end of the tunnel lies another world. And a rule: without the treasure, there is no way back.
What makes the series different
Two layers, never explained
On top, a funny and exciting adventure. Underneath, four elemental archetypes, a connecting fifth principle and a natural cycle. Children need to know none of it to understand everything.
No leader, no superpowers
Leadership shifts with the situation. Nobody saves the world alone and nobody has magic. What they have are very different strengths - and the shadow side of each.
Cultures, not backdrops
Every country is inhabited and has its own clothing, architecture, transport and blind spots. Adults can read what happens to societies when connections are cut for generations.
Four children and a dog
Locked character sheets from production.
Leon
Fire - around 10
Milo
Air - around 9
Mara
Earth - around 10
Sina
Water - around 9
Aaron
Aether - fully grown
A world that no longer connects
Four countries convinced they have four separate problems. A desert without water. A forest drying out. A sea frozen solid. A mountain range looking down on everyone else. In truth there are not four problems, but one interrupted system.
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Current status
Book 1 is in production: the characters are locked and page assembly is under way. Books 2 to 5 are fully developed as story. This site is a preview - release dates and prices are not fixed yet.