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The Window Seat cover art from Book Dash.

The Window Seat

A Book Dash story by Sindeka Mandoyi

  • 2025
  • 12 illustrated spreads
  • Editorial suggestion · unrated
  • Shared under CC BY 4.0
For the grown-up reading along

gentle sister story and imaginative train ride; the official blurb says “magical,” with no occult mechanism identified

The Window Seat, in full

The Window Seat — front cover page. Official Book Dash image with embedded title and story text.
Front cover
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 1 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 1 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 2 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 2 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 3 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 3 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 4 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 4 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 5 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 5 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 6 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 6 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 7 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 7 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 8 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 8 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 9 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 9 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 10 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 10 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 11 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 11 of 12
The Window Seat — illustrated spread 12 of 12. Official Book Dash page image with embedded story text and artwork.
Illustrated spread 12 of 12
The Window Seat — back cover page. Official Book Dash image with embedded publication and story text.
Back cover

Credits and license

Who made this book

Writer
Sindeka Mandoyi
Illustrator
Chloe Veldsman
Designer
Roulé le Roux
Editor
Angela Briggs
Isbn
978-0-948602-62-7

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Screen-reading edition prepared by StoryBeam Kids. Official English gallery JPEGs were resized to a maximum width of 1,280 pixels, converted to WebP, and stripped of metadata. Originally published by Book Dash under CC BY 4.0 and created by Sindeka Mandoyi, Chloe Veldsman, Roulé le Roux, and Angela Briggs. The original can be read free at bookdash.org.

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