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Children’s Books: The Birthday Series
Birthdays are a day filled with joy and happiness for chidren of all ages.
When is Santa’s Birthday?
Everyone wants to know their birthday. Hazel, Santa’s newest elf, only knows that she shares her birthday with Santa. She sets out to discover the date of Santa’s birthday to find her own. With her stuffed rabbit Hoppy, she interviews all eight reindeer and many of Santa’s elves. Everyone wants to help, but they all know a secret. You will learn the secret too.
A free coloring book is available from the website and it can be ordered as a fun one act classroom play.
Rudy, Santa’s Ninth Reindeer
Santa’s chief elf Jingles asked Santa’s newest elf Hazel to talk with a shy young reindeer named Rudolph. Rudy wasn’t eating well, sleeping odd hours and had a bright red nose. He was not accepted by the other reindeer. We all know the end of the story, but we did not know how Hazel and her stuffed bunny Hoppy discovered Rudy’s special gift and saved Christmas for millions of children that Christmas eve.
A free coloring book is available from the website.
Dear Tooth Fairy, is Today your Birthday?
Today is Abbey’s sixth birthday. The Tooth Fairy has left six quarters under her pillow. One for each year. Abbey would like to leave the Tooth Fairy a gift on her birthday. At her birthday party, she asks her friends to help discover the Tooth Fairy’s birthday. Each friend writes a little poem that begins, Dear Tooth Fairy and ends, Is today your birthday? Then Abbey asks everyone who reads this book to help.
A free coloring book is available on the website.
Henry, The Spare Parts Dog
Susie, is new in town and needs a best friend. She selects a very funny-looking puppy for her birthday. With the help of her classmates and an understanding teacher, Susie learns a lot about her dog, her classmates, and herself.
A free coloring book is available on the website.



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Contemporary Fiction for Adult Readers.
A. Escort Service. (release date, December 2022) (Draft Cover Illustration)
Halbert Sixacre, a young California Scientist-Gourmet-Author has a NYT best-selling book, a cookbook! He is on a five-week book tour of Northern New England with a local escort. Why is he touring Northern New England and not Boston, New York, and LA? Why is Céleste, his escort from Canada, available for the five-week tour? Why does she travel with Argos, her guard dog?
B. Things are Not What They Seem (release date March 2023) (Draft Cover Illustration)
A sequel to the Hal Sixacre series to be ready for professional editing by and released in September 2023. Where Escort Service features food, Things are Not What They Seem features wine and a world-wide wine tour.
C. Simple Gift (release date March 2023) (Draft Illustration)
A novel set in Colorado and based loosely on the operations of Habitat for Humanity and its retail outlet Re-Stores. The mystery features lost art and support of a serious medical condition.
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