TheDirty Foot Rabbit
Whisker Woods · An interactive storybook
Stories with Muddy Feet and Brave Hearts
Meet Dirty Foot Rabbit and the friends of Whisker Woods — read-aloud tales, written and illustrated by hand, that come alive with music and moving artwork.
Featured taleThe Dirty Foot Rabbit
The rabbit with the muddiest feet in Whisker Woods — and a mystery to solve. Tap, listen and choose your path!
Listen to this tale
From the burrow · Free to read
Free tales to begin tonight
Every adventure is hand-illustrated in warm watercolour and read aloud in a gentle voice — bedtime stories that listen back. As each page is read, the artwork stirs and the score swells, so the whole tale unfolds like a moving picture book.
The stories follow one small rabbit on one very long walk. Dirty Foot Rabbit — DFR to his friends — sets out through Whisker Woods to find his way home, and along the way he crosses streams that talk, gates that only open for the brave, and neighbours who trade kindness for kindness. Nothing here is loud or flashy. These are quiet tales about patience, curiosity and love, the sort that wind down nicely on the second telling, because a good bedtime story should get softer every time, not wear out.
Grown-ups will notice the deeper current running underneath: every search for home in these books is written by a father who spent years kept at a distance from his own children, and every gate DFR opens is a gate someone once had to fight to open. The children never need to know any of that. They just need to know that somebody always comes back for them — and that is exactly what every story here promises.
The Last Carrot
When winter comes and food grows scarce, Dirty Foot the young deer finds the last carrot in the meadow — and must decide what to do with the one good thing left.
Begin the Adventure
Bear's Spring
Bear wakes from hibernation to find the world has changed — and discovers that change, even when it's hard, can make room for something new.
Begin the Adventure
The Small One
Pip is the smallest field mouse in a very large family — until the day only someone small can save the day.',
Begin the AdventureRead-aloud narration
A soft storyteller's voice reads every page aloud — perfect for laps, car rides and lights-out.
Artwork that comes alive
As the narration reaches just the right word, paintings crossfade into new scenes and the moment stirs.
Music for every mood
A soft score follows the story — storm music, forest birdsong, thunder exactly where the words say so.
The cast
Friends of Whisker Woods
A brave little rabbit with muddy feet, the dad who waits by the lamplight, and a wise Owl who knows every trail and burrow. Each of them carries a piece of the story's heart.
Whisker Woods is not an empty forest. It is a whole neighbourhood of families: Beaver who engineers every bridge, Hare who runs faster than bad news, Frog who teaches tadpole swimming lessons at the mill pond, Duck who delivers the morning gossip, and gentle Deer who watches over the glades. The grown-ups are Dad's oldest friends; their children are DFR's playmates, which means every adventure in the woods is really an adventure with family. Tap any portrait below to read who they are, who they belong to, and where you'll meet them.
A night with the book
How storytime unfolds
No instructions to learn, no menus to fight. Open a tale and the woods takes over — here is exactly what your reader will find.
It begins with a voice
Choose a story and the narrator starts reading in a warm, unhurried voice, while the first painting fades in full across the screen. Words light up as they're spoken, so early readers can follow along.
Then the pictures come alive
As the narration reaches just the right word, the artwork stirs: paintings crossfade into new scenes, stars sparkle and lanterns glow, so every page becomes a moving picture book.
And the music follows along
Beneath the voice, a gentle score keeps time with the tale: forest ambience, rain on the roof, a rumble of thunder right on cue. The story's world sounds the way it reads.
And it ends the same way, every time
However far DFR wanders, every path home ends warm: a light in a window, a hug at the door, a dad who waited. Somebody always comes back for you.
The Burrow Club
Join the Burrow Club — the whole library, every month
A membership opens every door in Whisker Woods: the complete read-aloud library, five brand-new illustrated adventures delivered each month, and a gentle score behind every page. A whole season of bedtime stories that never wear out.
Every tale is safe, ad-free and slow by design — the sort of screen time you'll happily say yes to.
- Hand-illustrated tales, read aloud page by page
- Narrated with music, ambience and word-synced effects
- New stories delivered every single month
A book of their very own
A personalized storybook, written just for your child
Annual Burrow Club members can turn their child into the hero of the woods: tell us their name, their age and the little things they love, and we'll write and illustrate a brand-new adventure starring them — a keepsake PDF to read tonight and keep forever.
Not a member yet, or dreaming of something even more personal? Request a custom tale and we'll craft a one-of-a-kind adventure around your idea — a birthday surprise, a brave moment, a story only your family could inspire.
Why these tales exist
"Love doesn't end at the doorstep. It walks every mile of the road home."
Whisker Woods began as a father's bedtime story — and kept being told through the longest road of all, the one a family walks when courts and calendars keep them apart. For every parent reading through a hard season, and for every child who misses someone: this one is for you.