Welcome to Bedlam University!
All of the Bedlamites are so glad you're here! (Well, except Trickster. He thinks you're sus.) Follow the links below to dive head-first into the Bedlam chaos! (If you dare. Windy would probably warn you against it. But I'm sure Mary and K.P. would love the company! And hey, if you get a good grade, maybe Bunny--I mean, Teacher--will give you a sticker!)
Find the story blurb and FAQs on this page, and click on the cute little pictures below to find all our cool online stuff, like the book, the website, and the street team email list.
Once there were two sisters, Rumple and Stilt, who played together happily in their own little world. (And peacefully, for the most part, except for occasional civil wars with their brothers). They named this world Bedlam, and in it lived their Kin.
(If you read the text up there ^^^ , you might be catching on.)
In reality, our Kin, also known as Bedlamites, were just toys. But, in the world of our imagination, they became real live characters, complete with voices, personalities, and big attitudes. We made them go to school like us, annoy each other as much as we did, and do things we couldn’t, like have superpowers and visit restaurants full of ice-skating penguins.
Now, we never got the memo that we were supposed to grow out of playing with stuffed animals. Rather, we realized that if we didn’t record the goings-on of Bedlam, we might forget them entirely. So we grabbed our pens and papers and set about recording the Bedlamites' adventures.
And the rest is history. Now, all children from ages one to one hundred can curl up in their own beds and join the fun at Bedlam University, in which Baby Tiny is adorable, Blue Bear is pathetic, Koko Pasta is disgusting, Trickster is frustrated, Windy is practical, Baby Bear is ditsy, Mary is sassy, Josiah is exhausted, Pasta is the brunt of all the jokes, and Teacher tries to keep it all under control (and fails miserably).
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The official Rumple and
Stilt's Kin website! -
Join the Rumple and
Stilt's Kin street team
email list! -
Click here to buy the book
on launch day!
FAQ: for people who frequently ask questions
Who in the world are Rumple and Stilt?
Who are all these stuffed animal characters? Bedlamites, you called them? And they're your "kin"? Like, what in the world???
The Bedlamites--the stuffed animals and dolls residing in Bedlam--are indeed Rumple and Stilt's kin. Well, sort of. They're our childhood friends and we're basically related, so get used it. Everything's weird in Bedlam University.
Now if you're wondering who the characters are, that's a bit easier of a question. We have Blue Bear the pitiful and pathetic scientist geek; Baby Tiny the adorable and mischievous mayor of TinyTown; Koko Pasta the idiotic and smelly orangutan and professional bum; Mary the tubby and sassy curio sales-monkey; Pasta the misfortunate but successful clown puppet; Baby Josiah the sleepy and also incredibly wealthy businessdoll; Trickster the grouchy tiger who's a part-time carpenter and full-time bachelor; Windy the extremely cool husky-wolf who leads a sled dog team; Baby Bear the ditsy romantic who loves candy; and the incredibly large and extremely pompous Bunny, known to the University students as Teacher (because she's, well, their teacher). And if you imagined this combination of characters going to school together and didn't see how anything could go wrong, then you need to see a doctor. Or maybe just become a Bedlamite yourself.
Why do the Bedlamites go to a University? Don't some of them already have degrees?
Yes, multiple Bedlamites have degrees. Blue Bear has three PhDs, five master's degrees, and eight bachelor's, with majors and minors various scientific and medical disciplines; Trickster has a bachelor's in being a bachelor; Baby Tiny has a degree in political science; Josiah has one in business; and Pasta has a master's from the Clown College. But to answer the question, they go to the University because we invited them and they thought it looked like fun! And for absolutely no other logical reason.







