The novel Reports from the Forest will be launched on Sunday June 14th 2026 at 11am in Passaporta Bookshop, Brussels. You'll find a link here soon to register.

An old Mother Oak who believes that humans are important for the future of the planet, works her magic to bring six city kids to the forest. There, the young people learn how important forests are to the future of humans, and how to interact respectfully with all more-than-human beings. The Warriors of Mighty Beech intend to thwart her plan. Mighty Beech lives along a hiking trail and is wasting away due to the compacting of his roots. He and his allies believe that humans should disappear from this planet as quickly as possible. Reports from the Forest is a book that offers a new perspective on the natural world around us and a glimpse of a positive future.

Anaïs Berck is represented in the creation of this novel by a hornbeam from the Sonian Forest in Brussels (story), the humans An Mertens (text), Tina Horne (translation & fine-tuning), Peter Jacquemyn (drawings); and the algorithms from LibreOffice, Nubo cloud and the databases Wikipedia and Ecopedia.

The book is riso-printed in Brussels by art centre nadine (Loes Jacobs) in an edition of 100 copies. A regular copy can be ordered through any bookshop and will be printed on demand. The book also exists in Dutch as Bosberichten.

This edition has received the much appreciated support of the Flemish Government Arts, nadine, Passaporta Bookshop. Illustration above by Peter Jacquemyn.