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. 

The novel will be launched on Sunday 14 June 2026 at 11am in Passaporta Bookshop Brussels, in presence of the humans who collaborated under the name of Anais Berck: An Mertens (text), Tina Horne (translation & fine- tuning), Peter Jacquemyn (drawings).

At the launch you will be able to buy one of the 100 special edition artist-signed copies, printed by arts center nadine. Regular copies can be ordered later through any bookshop and will be printed on demand. The book’s title in Dutch is Bosberichten.

Please register for the booklaunch: https://www.passaportabookshop.be/nl/evenementen/reports-from-the-forest-bosberichten or send an email to anais@anaisberck.be

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.

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