95
Tales
Grail Fables
Planting Seeds of Goodness
Long
before
we
had
books,
we
had
stories…
They were passed onto us — Grail Fables exists to keep that connection alive.
Three picture books to begin the shelf
The Bear, the Rabbit, and Goodnight, Grumbles — first stories for small hands and the grown-ups who read them aloud. Written to be reached for at bedtime, borrowed back from a growing-up child, and kept past the year they were bought for.
Ages 0–4
The Bear Who Hated the Thorn Bush
A Story About Finding Gratitude Through Paying Attention
See the book →
Ages 4–8
The Rabbit Who Talked to Strangers Online
A story about online safety and learning to see what a screen is doing to you, not just what it shows you
See the book →
Ages 0–4
Goodnight, Grumbles
Every thought is a small living thing
See the book →Three volumes, one shoreline
Three volumes for three ages — 10 × 8 landscape for the smallest, 8 × 10 portrait for young readers, 6 × 9 for adults. Seven collections in all: the lamplit quiet, the unseen helpers, growing up, the Almost Country, and three adult movements through what is owed, what returns, and what passing means.
Every tale rests on a current you don't see at the surface.
This is what a shelf full of "fables with a moral" is usually missing: each of these stories carries its own quiet logic underneath — plainspoken enough for a child, deep enough to send an adult reader back to reread it.
You can enjoy the story and never look under the water. Or you can lift the surface, at the close of any tale, and find the current that was carrying it the whole time.
— a convention kept across all 95 tales, all three volumes
For young readers
Adventure and heart, with depth beneath
Fables in the tradition of Aesop and Kahlil Gibran — read aloud at bedtime, gifted at christenings, kept on the shelf past the age they were bought for. Suspense shows up in exactly eight tales, and only because the moral costs something.
See Volumes One & Two →For adult readers
Stories that sit with the hard questions
Literary spiritual fiction for readers of Coelho, Gibran, and Bachelard — speculative futures, historical fables, and one unflinching arc on death and what comes after.
See Volume Three →About
The hand under the water
The Grail Fables is an independent publishing house built around one conviction: that a story can be plainspoken without being shallow, and honest without being grim.
The author writes these fables slowly — a few each year, each one allowed to find its quiet logic before it's set down. The result is a shelf sized not by output but by care: ninety-five tales, published a handful at a time, each carrying the same current the first one did.
— The Grail Fables
Write to us
For presses & partners
Trade, rights & bulk
Book clubs, homeschool co-ops, classrooms, and reviewers — we welcome thoughtful enquiries and offer bulk rates for reading groups.
contact@grailfables.com →Come aboard
One free tale, first — then word when Volume One is ready to hold in your hands. No noise between now and then.
Book clubs, homeschool co-ops, and classrooms: write to contact@grailfables.com for bulk rates.