Can You Hear the Halcyons Sing?

An illustrated story in verse

A Lion and a Bunny share their dreams and aspirations with each other and wonder what it means to be growing up. As they go through their journey together towards their dreams, they discover twists and turns that take them to places they never expected to be.

This is a story about friendship, growing up, and accepting change on the rocky road that is life.

A Pandemic project

The Story behind the story

I’ve been working on this storybook idea on and off since Christmas 2020. It started during the Pandemic when I couldn’t see family for Christmas. Stuck indoors for the holidays, I started looking through mementos and old letters from an almost forgotten past (when writing letters was still a thing). They reminded me that I once had some very important people in my life whom we shared the thick and thins together. This book is dedicated to them.

thumbnails of Can You Hear the Halcyons Sing inside pages

The making of my storybook

I've written down my entire journey working on this project, mainly to document my progression, as most designers tend to do( yay artifacts!). More importantly, I want to share the unglamorous rises and falls behind the scenes in hopes of inspiring the hesitant creatives that anything is possible through perseverance, and no effort towards the dream is ever done in vain.

Read my Journey