Twisting the Rainbow

Twisting the Rainbow presents children’s stories that challenge current perceptions of the natural world and what it can teach us. This is storytelling for a new world.

About Us

Twisting the Rainbow is the home of AC Bradburn, a husband and wife team that writes short and long stories, sometimes with music, that strive to engage with the natural world in new and ancient ways.They began their working lives as freelance musicians, often combining music and storytelling in workshops with children. Now with a young family, they divide their time between home educating their children, growing vegetables, looking after chickens and struggling to find time to write!


Dancing with Cara

The Nature Stories

BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE DANCING WITH CARA SERIES!'Never forget your roots within the web of life. You are as welcome and as important as any other being out here. We're really all one big family.'Join Cara as she delves deeply into the secrets of the natural world, one enchanting tale at a time.In this second set of Dancing with Cara stories, Cara finds out who brings in the spring, learns how to sing to the stars, and uncovers a whole hidden world under the soil.
In the process, she is encouraged to question her place in nature and how humans could be living in right relationship with the world around them.
By the award-winning author and illustrator team behind Dancing with Cara: The Rainbow Stories.BUY NOW FROM:


Dancing with Cara

The Rainbow Stories

Winner of the Readers' Choice Book Awards, Best Children's Book 3-7, Autumn 2023'What a beautiful world this is,' Crystal whispered to Cara's heart, 'when we allow our true colours to shine.'Dive into the world of four-year-old Cara as she explores the secrets of the universe through her playful conversations with the natural world.Dancing with Cara: The Rainbow Stories is a set of eight enchanting stories to shift your perspective, awaken your spirit and nourish your soul, with magical illustrations by Ivy Trazsi.BUY NOW FROM:



Dancing with Cara Animations

An enchanting collection of short animated films from Dancing with Cara: The Rainbow Stories to shift your perspective, awaken your spirit and nourish your soul.Words and music by AC Bradburn.
Illustration by Ivy Trazsi.

Agent Pangolin

The Mystery of the Shiny Moon

A middle grade novel by AC BradburnSunda is a pangolin on a mission…Her family has been taken by poachers, she’s been ripped away from her beloved Sumatran rainforest and now the beautiful nature reserve that she calls home in London is about to be destroyed by humans.But there’s no way she’s going to let that happen.Sunda becomes an animal secret agent for the mysterious ‘Web of Light’ and discovers an ancient legend that could help save her home. Can she solve the mystery of the shiny moon before it’s too late?With beautiful illustrations by Julia Vasileva, this is a magical story of courage, friendship and justice for the natural world.BUY NOW FROM:


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