Rainey
The cat who stayed. Her rainbow tail opens the way home.
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Hero
Storybook · Book One · 2026
He never knew she had stayed.
And she never stopped calling him home.
A picture book about pet loss,
the quiet weight of grief,
and the love that finds its way back.
Written in plain English. Made to be read aloud.
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The Book
Storybook · 10 Minutes · All Ages
A quiet story,
read in ten minutes.
A man walks through the rain, missing the cat he lost. He does not see the soft shape padding beside him — the one keeping the worst of the weather off his shoulders. She does not know, yet, that the grieving stranger she has chosen to guard is the very person she once called home.
"Rainey called into the rainbow, and it called back. And sometimes — a warmer voice came too. She didn't know whose. She only knew she waited for it."
— From "A Name to Call You Home"
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Characters
The Trio · Rainey the Cat
Three friends. One quiet world.
Max
The stray no one called by name — until someone did.
Puffy
A small cloud who knows the way across the bridge.
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Watch
Read-Aloud · YouTube
Listen,
while someone reads it for you.
Each book comes with a short film: the story, read aloud, with the soft-vinyl world moving gently behind it. Made for rainy evenings, and for the kind of bedtime when a child needs the same voice, twice.
A Name to Call You Home — Read Aloud
Watch on YouTube
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About
Rainey the Cat · A Small Series
From Rainey the Cat —
a small series of picture books, dioramas,
and read-aloud films about the animals who stay with us.
We are working on a quiet shelf of books. Each one begins with an animal that someone has loved and had to let go of, and ends with the soft, stubborn fact that love does not really leave. The series is run by JIN, a Korean-English simultaneous interpreter who started writing storybooks for the same reason most people do — because someone had to read one to her, and then there wasn't anyone left to read it to.
Rainey the Cat is a small independent picture book series from Seoul, created by JIN. Our work spans picture books, diorama photography, and short read-aloud films. JIN is also the founder of Rainbow Pet, a pet end-of-life companion service based in Korea. You can learn more about it at rainbowpet.co.kr .
