Every Story Begins With Wonder
Where The Quiet Things Grow™ is an original children’s storytelling series created by writer and storyteller Meggen Harris and developed through Quiet Things Studio™. Told through modern parables, the stories explore resilience, belonging, patience, courage, identity, and wonder—inviting children into imaginative worlds where some of life’s biggest lessons are discovered in the smallest moments.
Created primarily for children ages 4–8, the stories are designed to live across books, animation, and visual storytelling, with layers of meaning that can resonate with the grown-ups reading and watching alongside them.
Built One Story at a Time
Each story begins with something small—a seed of curiosity, courage, patience, belonging, or wonder. From there, it grows into a world of its own, inviting children into stories where some of life’s biggest lessons are discovered in the quietest moments.
Meet The Ants & The Peony
The Ants & The Peony is the first story from Where The Quiet Things Grow™, a gentle parable about patience, perseverance, and trusting what is happening even when you can’t yet see the result.
When a colony of ants discovers a mysterious peony bud, they begin to wonder whether it will ever bloom. As the seasons unfold, they learn that growth doesn’t always happen on our schedule, and that some of life’s most beautiful things are worth waiting for.
At its heart, this is a story about the space between effort and outcome. About showing up, holding on, and finding meaning in the moments when nothing seems to be happening at all.
From Page to Screen
Where The Quiet Things Grow™ was conceived to move beyond the page. Through animation, narration, sound, and visual storytelling, each story can become an immersive experience of its own—one children can watch, revisit, and discover in a different way.
More Quiet Things Are Growing
The Ants & The Peony is only the beginning. New stories, characters, books, and animated experiences are growing within the world of Where The Quiet Things Grow™—each exploring a different facet of resilience, belonging, identity, courage, patience, and wonder.
Created by Meggen Harris
Where The Quiet Things Grow™ was created by writer and storyteller Meggen Harris as an original intellectual property developed through Quiet Things Studio™. What began with a single story has grown into an expanding world of original characters and modern parables designed to live across books, animation, audio, and other forms of storytelling.
The idea is simple: a story shouldn’t have to live in only one place. Children can read it on the page, watch it come to life through animation, or listen as it is read aloud—experiencing the same story in different ways and returning to it as they grow.
And the world is still growing. New stories, animated experiences, premium print editions, audio, merchandise, and other extensions of Where The Quiet Things Grow™ are in development, all created around the same belief that some of life’s biggest lessons grow quietly.
Read. Watch. Listen.
READ
Books and beautifully illustrated stories made to be read, shared, and returned to.
WATCH
Original animated stories that bring the characters, landscapes, and quiet moments to life.
LISTEN
Narrated stories for bedtime, quiet time, car rides, or whenever a child wants to hear a favorite story again.
Begin With The Ants & The Peony
The first story in Where The Quiet Things Grow™ is available now as a beautifully illustrated digital book, with a premium hardcover edition on the way. Follow a determined colony of ants as they tend to a peony bud that seems to be doing absolutely nothing—and discover what can happen when patience, perseverance, and trust are given time to grow.
Where Quiet Things Keep Growing
Where The Quiet Things Grow™ is an original storytelling property created by Meggen Harris and developed through Quiet Things Studio™. New stories, characters, formats, and experiences will continue to grow from this world—always rooted in curiosity, imagination, and the quiet lessons children carry with them.
New stories are already taking root. Come back soon to see what grows next.
WHERE THE QUIET THINGS GROW™ and its associated stories, characters, artwork, and creative materials are the intellectual property of Quiet Things Studio, LLC. © 2026 Quiet Things Studio, LLC. All rights reserved.