Birdseyeview Sanctuary
This is Birdseyeview Sanctuary — a place where we not only see the trees, but the forest as well. A place where differences are not a weakness, but a strength — where every voice, and every searching heart, is seen whole.
Five gentle choose-and-say picture books for ages 2–5, made by a mama for her son. Your child chooses what happens — and says the words out loud.
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Blankets to read under, mugs, wall art, and Say-It-Together tees — made from the books' own art. Pictured here is the Book 1 set: the pattern blanket, the book, and the tee together — the picture every book will get as it rolls out. The Speaking Stories collection opens first — see each piece in the shop to look it over up close.
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Birdseyeview Sanctuary · Children's Books
Speaking Stories for Little Ones
Five gentle picture books for ages 2–5, made by a mama for her son. Each story pauses and waits — for a choice, for a word, for your child's voice.
Your child doesn't just listen. They choose what happens, and they say the words out loud.
Children's Books
Read them in any order. Each one is its own little world — and its own first words. Each paperback is $9.99 on Amazon.
A Bedtime Choose-and-Say Story
A little star twinkles over the sea, and a very sleepy fish needs a bedtime helper. A calm, cozy goodnight story that turns bedtime into gentle first-words practice.
$9.99Paperback · Amazon
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A Puddle-Day Choose-and-Say Story
Pip has two red boots and one big, shiny puddle. Splashes, giggles, and a duck — made for little ones who learn by stomping and shouting along.
$9.99Paperback · Amazon
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An Up-to-the-Sky Choose-and-Say Story
All aboard for the sky. The little moon train climbs up, up, up through the clouds, carrying stars to the places that need their light.
$9.99Paperback · Amazon
A First-Song Choose-and-Say Story
Bibi is finding her very first song. A sweet morning story about trying out loud — and soft — and discovering your voice is welcome either way.
$9.99Paperback · Amazon
A Cozy-Night Choose-and-Say Story
Little Bear builds the coziest fort of all — blanket over chairs, pillow just so. The warm, winding-down closer to the series.
$9.99Paperback · Amazon
Books 1 & 2 — coming soon.
Coming soon on Amazon.
Books 3 & 4 — next.
The Little Moon Train and Bibi the Baby Bird follow right after.
Book 5 — completes the set.
The Cozy Fort arrives last, so you can collect all five.
Follow along below for the exact day each book goes live — links will be added here as soon as they're buyable.
Simple on purpose. No lessons, no flashcards — just a story that leaves room for your child.
Twice in every book, the story stops and asks. Both choices are pictured as equals — the choice stays theirs.
You choose! Sing a quiet song, or tell a tiny story?
Short, repeatable phrases in gold boxes, said out loud together — nice and slow, as many times as they like.
Say it together: “Goodnight, sea.”
Every book ends with a Find It picture game, talk-together questions, and coloring pages to land in.
Find it: the little star · the big green leaf · the soft sand
Birdseyeview Sanctuary · Bundles & Gifts
Give the whole set — the book, its blanket, and its tee, bundled together as a gift. Choose a story below, see everything that belongs in its bundle, then head to the Shop to put your set together. The Birdseyeview blanket-and-mug pairs for the grown-ups are here too.
The Giving Back blanket and mug, photographed together as pairs. Pick them up one at a time in Give Back — or as a pair, here.
A short note, because these books started at home.
For Hans.
For my son — may you always find your words.
Cassandra Charley wrote these stories for her son Hans, whose words came one by one, like stars coming out at night. She noticed the books he leaned into were the ones that left a space — a pause, a choice, a moment where the story waited for him.
So she made books that wait. Not therapy, and not a test — just an invitation, on every page, to choose and to say it out loud.
Because I know what it is to need care and not find it. When my own time came, I went looking for help — and the help and the care I needed were not there. I carried that season largely alone, and I never forgot it.
So this is my hope: that no woman has to carry it alone. The giving from this sanctuary goes toward midwives, birth facilities, care centers, and aftercare — real help, real care, and real support for women during birth, after birth, and, if it is ever needed, through life.
Every woman deserves to be held while she does the bravest work there is.
By Cassandra Charley · Illustrated by Infinity
Birdseyeview Sanctuary · Giving Back
From every blanket, over $22 goes to help women around the world bring their babies into the world — midwives, birth facilities, care centers, and aftercare for mothers after birth. From every mug, over $11 goes to the same cause.
Here is the full breakdown, plain and open — so you can see exactly where each sale goes.
Here they are one at a time — not as a bundle. Take the blanket on its own, or take the mug on its own — just the one you love. Both are pictured here in teal; every other color they come in is listed in words under each piece below, and all of them are waiting in the shop. If you'd like them together as a set, you'll find sets put together in Bundle It!
Just the blanket, on its own — the Birdseyeview bird repeated across a soft, fuzzy teal throw blanket, draped over the cream rug the way it lives at home, made to wrap up in. It comes in three sizes, so the price depends on the size you choose — pick your size in the shop and you'll see its exact price there before you buy. From this blanket, over $22 goes to the cause above — the rest of the price covers making and shipping the piece.
$54.99 – $68.9930×40″ $54.99 · 50×60″ $58.99 · 60×80″ $68.99 — from the smallest size to the largest
Get just the blanket ↗
Just the mug, on its own — the Birdseyeview bird and her saying, “We not only see the trees, but the forest as well. Happy Journeyings❣️”, on teal. It comes in three sizes, and the price is the same whichever size you choose. From this mug, over $11 goes to the same cause — the rest of the price covers making and shipping the piece.
$29.99Same price for every size — 11 oz, 15 oz, and 20 oz
Get just the mug ↗Every other color of the blanket and the mug is waiting in the shop — each one sold on its own. Want the two together instead? Head to Bundle It! to see them as a set.
See the books, hear a page read aloud, and be there on launch day.
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Birdseyeview Sanctuary · Shop
Cozy things made from the books' own art — blankets to read under, mugs for little hands and grown-up ones, wall art for the nursery, and tees that carry the stories' Say-It-Together lines. Everything is made to order and shipped to you by our print partner. Each button below takes you to see that item in the shop — that blanket, mug, print, or tee on its own page, where you can look it over up close.
Opening in two waves. The Speaking Stories collection opens first. Birdseyeview pieces live in the Give Back tab, where every blanket and mug gives back.
See it in the shop ↗From Speaking Stories for Little Ones — Book 1 has two blankets, each with its own different picture: the original Little Star Blanket, and the Little Star Pattern Blanket from the set photo. Plus Pip and the Cozy Fort.
From Book 1 · The Little Star and the Sleepy Fish
The second Book 1 blanket, with its own picture: cleaned-up smiling stars and sleepy fish scattered over a deep sea-blue background — the throw draped beside the book in the set picture above, made to wrap up in.
$39.99 – $54.9930×40″ $39.99 · 50×60″ $47.49 · 60×80″ $54.99
Buy it in the shop ↗
From Book 1 · The Little Star and the Sleepy Fish
The original Book 1 blanket, keeping its original picture: the bedtime scene itself, made soft — the star keeps watch over the sea while the sleepy fish drifts below. Made for reading Book 1 under — and falling asleep under after.
$39.99 – $54.9930×40″ kids' blanket · 50×60″ throw
Buy it in the shop ↗
From Book 1 · The Little Star and the Sleepy Fish
The little star, glowing against the deep blue night, with the words it carries: “My light is mine.” A Say-It-Together line to wear — for little ones shining in their very own light.
$24.99Kids $24.99
See it in the shop ↗
From Book 1 · The Little Star and the Sleepy Fish
The star-over-the-sea scene as a nursery print — the same picture that watches over bedtime in the book, now watching over the room.
$24.9912×18″ print
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From Book 2 · Pip the Puppy and the Puddle
A soft fuzzy throw with Pip the Puppy in his red boots at the pond — the same artwork draped beside the book in the Book 2 gift set picture in Bundle It!, above. For puddle-day stories, and drying off after real ones.
$39.99 – $54.9930×40″ $39.99 · 50×60″ $47.49 · 60×80″ $54.99
Buy it in the shop ↗
From Book 2 · Pip the Puppy and the Puddle
A kids' tee with Pip at the pond — “Puddle Day! splash happy · with Pip the Puppy.” Made for stomping, splashing, and shouting along with the story.
$24.99Kids $24.99
Buy it in the shop ↗
From The Light Inside Me
A soft throw carrying the little bear and the warm light glowing from his chest — the blanket that matches the “My light is mine.” bear tee, made for wrapping up in your own light.
$39.99 – $54.9930×40″ $39.99 · 50×60″ $47.49 · 60×80″ $54.99
See it in the shop ↗
From The Light Inside Me
A cream kids' tee with the little bear and his own warm light — “My light is mine.” The tee that goes with the Bear Blanket, for little ones learning that their light is theirs.
$24.99Kids $24.99
Buy it in the shop ↗
From Book 5 · The Cozy Fort
A blanket with a blanket fort on it — Little Bear building his coziest fort of all. For fort-building, story time, and every cozy night after.
$39.99 – $54.9930×40″ kids' blanket · 50×60″ throw
Buy it in the shop ↗The Bedtime Bundle — Book 1, The Little Star and the Sleepy Fish, together with the Little Star Blanket: the book to read, and the blanket to read it under. The book comes from Amazon when it goes live; the blanket comes from the shop above — two parcels, one bedtime.
Questions about an order, or want to know the day a preview shelf opens? Email Cassandra — and see the Follow section just above for shop news alongside the book releases.
