About Penelope Willis
Author of Comforting Stories, Quotes and Gentle Reflections
Penelope Willis is a children’s author and writer of comforting words, known for her gentle, heartfelt stories that help little ones feel safe, reassured and understood. Drawing on almost forty years of experience working with young children in early years education, she writes about the feelings and experiences that shape childhood, including kindness, change, missing someone, new beginnings, emotional connection and the quiet wonder found in everyday life.
Her books include the Oscar’s Island Adventures series, Lottie and the Hotel by the Sea, Elani and the Sea of Light, the Whenever You Miss Me, Look for the Moon series, The Little Grey Feather and Gentle Words: Comforting Quotes on Childhood and Love. Through her growing Calming Stories for Little People collection, alongside her comforting quotes and gentle reflections, Penelope creates words for children and the grown ups who love them.
At the heart of everything Penelope writes is comfort. Through her books, reflections and resources, she hopes to offer a gentle place to pause, feel understood and find a little reassurance, one story or comforting word at a time.
About Penelope Willis: Children’s Author of Comforting Stories
I’m Penelope Willis, a children’s author and writer with a lifelong love of stories and the comfort that words can bring.
For almost forty years, I’ve worked with young children in early years education, spending my days alongside little ones, sharing stories, listening to their feelings and seeing the world through their eyes. From those countless small moments, and from reading softly at story time and watching children become completely lost in a book, I found the inspiration to begin writing my own.
My stories gently explore the feelings and experiences that are such an important part of childhood. I write about love, kindness, reassurance, change, missing someone, new beginnings and the quiet wonder children find in the world around them. Whether I’m writing a comforting story for a little one or gentle words and reflections on childhood and love, there is one thing at the heart of everything I create: comfort.
I hope my children’s books offer a safe and calming place where little ones can feel understood, reassured and cared for. Through Gentle Words and my wider reflections, I also hope to create moments of connection for the grown ups who love them, capturing some of the feelings and ordinary moments of family life that can mean so much.
I live in the UK with my husband and our much loved dog, Beau. I find inspiration in the coast, in nature, in family life and in the small, often unnoticed moments that have a way of staying with us. The sea is never far from my stories, with the coastlines and natural beauty of places I love often finding their way quietly into my writing.
Thank you for being here. I hope you find something in my stories and words that brings you a little comfort, and that they become a soft, steady presence whenever you or the little ones you love need them.
