Luma & Lantern
🦘 The original series · ages 3–7
A little kangaroo. A great big world. One friend at a time.
Kodi is a young kangaroo from the red heart of Australia — too small for the big mob, and too big for his mum's pouch. So she sews him a pouch of his very own, stitched from his baby blanket, and sends him out to see the wide, wide world.
In every book, Kodi hops to a real country, meets a real friend, and is given one small keepsake to carry home — until his little pouch is holding the whole world, right next to his heart.
“Kangaroos don't hop backward.”
— the little truth at the heart of every book
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Book 1
New Zealand
Too small for the mob, too big for his mum's pouch — so Kodi takes his first big jump across the sea to a glowworm-lit forest, meets Kiri the kiwi, and learns that the bravest jump of all can be the gentlest one.
Kindle eBook · paperback July 31, 2026
Book 2
Japan
One enormous leap — on the back of a humpback whale — carries Kodi to a cherry-blossom hillside where Aiko the snow monkey has waited all year for one branch to bloom. A tender story about listening, saying sorry, and the quiet kind of brave.
Kindle eBook · paperback July 31, 2026
eBooks are available today — best enjoyed in color on Fire tablets and the free Kindle app. Both books arrive as full-color paperbacks on Amazon July 31, 2026.
Twelve countries. Twelve friends. One growing pouch.
…and the whole wide world beyond, in Kodi's Atlas.
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