Beatrice the Hairless is no ordinary worker bee, she's damed by the Queen. Maddie Woodsmith is no ordinary girl, she's an Īpašs. And there is nothing ordinary about Kingdom Animalia, where colorful, charming critters thrive while following a sacred oath unknown to humans.

The work-hard, play-hard subjects of Kingdom Animalia look after one another and enjoy paradise on a small urban hobby farm until five-year-old Maddie goes missing. The disappearance of the special one sets animal altruism into motion.

Join the wilds and domestics of Rolling Lane as their search and rescue mission takes on varied challenges, including Mother Nature. The animals and their escapades come alive with over ninety original oil-on-canvas illustrations. Beatrice the Hairless and the Īpašs Rescue is about collaboration, sacrifice, and celebration. It's about life and death. And the power of friendship and love.

Beatrice the Hairless is the ideal chapter-a-night story for children and parents to read together at bedtime. Inside the zany action are thought-provoking morals and fun facts about the natural world of animals.  

This version of the book is hardback with color illustrations. A paperback with black and white illustrations is also available.

If you like to laugh … and cry … and think about the world in a different way, Beatrice the Hairless is for you.

Cody Aufricht is a first-time author and long-time creative.  He built his career as a Chief Marketing Officer for several international software companies while raising his family on an urban hobby farm. When Cody was winding down his business career, he studied under prominent Texas artists and combined his interests in nature, storytelling, and painting to capture the richness of his family's life with animals.

"Beatrice the Hairless and the Īpašs Rescue" takes place on the Aufricht homestead and includes the people and animals that grew up there. In his spare time, you'll find Cody in his painting studio, hiking in the mountains, or mucking horse stalls at his home in Southlake, Texas.