The Carpenter And The Nightingale is a book written and contains illustrations by American artist and writer Kitt Mouri. Mouri began developing the story and characters in 2005, although her book, “The Carpenter And The Nightingale” was published in 2022. The book is also the first volume in her ongoing series called, “Lion Paws”.
The story takes place in a world of anthropomorphic animals and follows Kichoro Tambo, an anthropomorphic lioness, and her son, Jabulani. Due to the death of her husband, Kichoro is forced to sell her home and move in with her mother and wicked sisters. She ends up selling the house to a man named, Adon Ayele. He has moved to her town to take up the position of the village carpenter, a role that had been left vacant for quite some time. Adon has issues of his own that weigh him down, but with the help of a warm heart and a forgiving spirit, perhaps he can find solace.
Kichoro, along with all of the characters in the Lion Paws series, is a character that Kitt Mouri created. Since 2005, the character has gone through a great deal of development and at one point, Kitt Mouri even leant her to a comic series called, Katmandu. When the company went under, she maintained the ownership of the character, a character that she still considered to be incomplete. As she continued to work on her and the other titles under the Kitt Mouri banner, she started to weave her series together into one single universe and Kichoro finally found her story. Ultimately, Mouri decided to make Kichoro’s original deceased husband (Adon) the man that has become the protagonist of this story. In addition to him, a son that she had in a dream (Jabulani) became her actual child, no longer a dream.
