A lively story of colour, courage and defiance
Vincent Squirrel is a modern moral fable, told through animals, art, and disruption. Like the great fables before it, the story uses the natural world to explore what happens when fear takes hold, rules multiply, and safety is used as an excuse to control. This is not a tale about being well behaved. It is a story about what happens when imagination refuses to comply.
Vincent is a trickster, a daredevil, and an artist. He does not fight power with force, but with colour, wit, and bold acts of defiance. In peaceful times, he is a nuisance. In troubled times, he becomes exactly what the forest needs. A rebel with a cause.
In the wake of the Great Storm, Granite stepped forward as a protector. Strong, composed, and decisive, he led the grey squirrels in the construction of The Thicket, a vast barrier raised to shield the forest from future harm. At first, the new structure brought comfort. Food was organised. Movement was regulated. Order replaced chaos. But as The Thicket grew, so did Granite’s authority. What began as protection slowly reshaped how the forest lived, and freedom, once taken for granted, became something that had to be earned.
“Freedom is a fine idea, but order keeps us alive.”
GRANITE SQUIRREL, PROTECTOR