A gentle rhino, a clever raccoon
Rico & Rumi
A 10-book series for children ages 2–9. Every friend brings a new way to see and enjoy the world.
Rico & Rumi Play, Grown-ups, and the Authors
Rico & Rumi Play, and a note for grown-ups
Rico & Rumi Play is the hub for volume-games that sit beside the books. Grown-ups choose the story. Children play and listen.
The first volume-game is G01, paired with Volume 1 and the skill Differences and Friendship. It is not ready to play yet. When it is, families will find it here, on this hub, next to its matching book. Until then, the adventure is the story.
Visit the Play hub: /play
Grown-ups: These books are for bedtime and for classroom story time. They give children language for friendship, differences, memory, and looking again from a new height. Teachers and parents can start with Volume 1 and keep going, one friend at a time. See /teachers-&-parents and /about-the-authors
From Christopher and Ronda: Christopher Miller and his wife, Ronda Roscoe, write The Adventures of Rico & Rumi for the children in their family and for yours. Ronda leads Golden Hearth Tales LLC and helps shape the stories and the pictures. Their hope is simple: that a child who listens will leave the jungle a little more ready to notice what a friend can do.
The Adventures of Rico & Rumi
Welcome to The Adventures of Rico & Rumi
Rico the Rhino is strong, gentle, and a little lonely. Rumi the Raccoon is quick, clever, and always curious. When their paths cross, they find something families know in their bones: friendship grows when differences have room to work.
Every friend brings a new way to see and enjoy the world.
This is a 10-book series for children ages 2-9, written for the grown-ups who choose the story and the children who listen. Read at bedtime. Share at story time. Talk about it on the walk to the car.
Ten jungle adventures. Two unlikely friends. A new companion in each book, and a new way of seeing.
Christopher Miller and Ronda Roscoe created The Adventures of Rico & Rumi so parents and teachers would have stories that are fun to read aloud and worth talking about after. Rico and Rumi are different from each other. That is not the problem in these books. That is the gift.
Volume 1, Rico the Rhino and Rumi the Raccoon: An Unlikely Friendship, begins with Differences and Friendship: they realize what makes them different makes them stronger together. Then the circle grows. Each friend brings a skill, and a new way to see and enjoy the world.
Golden Hearth Tales LLC is the home of the series. The stories are for ages 2-9. Warm to read aloud. Easy to talk about after. Just a jungle, two friends, and the next good companion.
Start with Volume 1: /vol-1:-rico-and-rumi
Order Volume 1 on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2V3YY7Q
Order the paperback series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2VCBCCK
For teachers and parents: /teachers-&-parents
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