A tamaraw who charges first, an owl who is always asleep and a dove who keeps one seed just in case. Funny comics for kids 4 to 8 who love animals and being outside.
Meet the friends
Every friend is a real animal or tree from Mindoro, an island in the Philippines. Kids fall for the characters first and learn about the forest without noticing.
Charges in first and thinks second. Real tamaraw are tiny wild buffalo found only on Mindoro.
Knows everything and is asleep for most of it. Rides around on Tammy's horns like a hat.
Counts everything and always keeps one seed, just in case. One of the rarest birds in the world.
The oldest tree on the mountain. She knows what trees really do, and it's more than shade.
Book one
Tammy's hill is hot and bare. So the friends set off to find Lola Narra, the last big tree, splashing through a river, sliding down a mud slope and getting lost in the forest on the way. What they learn sends them racing back down the hill to plant a forest of their own.
Comic panels with speech bubbles of 3 to 8 words, so a new reader can read Tammy's lines out loud.
STOMP!, SPLASH! and a very sleepy owl. It has to survive the fortieth bedtime reading, so it's written to be funny.
Real Mindoro animals and a real forest. The science of how trees keep carbon arrives as a story, never a scare.
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Free games
Free games for the whole family, no app and no sign-up. The TV shows the game and a grown-up's phone becomes a big-button controller you hand to the kids. Nobody loses.
The games play on a TV, and your phone becomes the controller. We’ll email you the link so it’s ready tonight.
Tap a game to open it and play on this screen.
Tammy runs and jumps the stumps while Ruby drops seeds that grow into trees and turn the bare hill green.
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Hold the phone like a flashlight and tilt it to move Scoops's light around the night forest. Find five hidden friends.
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Build a blocky rider, hop on a tamaraw, carabao, pony or deer and race through the forest grabbing fruit. Up to 4 players.
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Ride a forester's motorbike, load up seedlings and hand them to farmers so they plant trees. Easy, medium and hard.
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Members type the month's code word from their Forest Post on the TV to open new games, starting with Mangrove Splash: Ruby plants mangrove seeds at low tide.
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Tammy's hill is on Mindoro, in the Philippines. The bare hills are real, and so is the native forest being planted back on them through the Mindoro Arawatan project, listed on the Verra registry. Wovoka, the company behind carbon.kids, works on it with GCash GForest, Mindoro Coffee Company and Inclusive Forests.
Enjoyed the games or the sample? Leave a tip. 100% of tips go to the Mindoro Arawatan project, planting native trees on Mindoro.
Tips go through Wovoka, a company, so they are not tax-deductible.
Why we make these
Most climate material for children is frightening or abstract. A forest is neither. Kids already know a big old tree is doing something important, so our books start with the animals and the place, and let the carbon idea arrive as an explanation of something the child already cares about.
Real carbon-holding landscapes: tropical forest, mangrove coast, cloud forest, peatland. Tammy & Friends starts here.
Stories of Indigenous leaders and land stewards, made with the communities involved in how they are shown.
Gentle books about having less and noticing more: forest bathing, slowness, and not needing much plastic.
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