Ivy’s photo became this hero.Learning · Ages 3–6
Blocks, snack, paint, sand, story, nap — your child never wants to stop playing! But every time Dingle the hopping brass bell rings “Time to switch! How will we go?”, it goes wrong: CLATTER, SPLAT, STOMP, CRASH. Until your child answers the bell: “Like a FROG!” A bouncy, funny book about switching from one thing to the next — where every switch becomes a game, and bye for now means see you soon.
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Ivy is painted from a photo — your child takes that place. Dingle and Pudding are the book’s own — the same in every copy.
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Switching is easier as a game — and bye for now means see you soon.
Ages 3–6
read together, again and again
In English
title, pages and dedication
12 story spreads
about 376 words
About 3 minutes
to read aloud
“Ding-Dong, How Will We Go?” — written from this story, not a stock track with a name dropped in. Free with every copy.
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This exact story is finished and checked page by page. When you order, your child’s name takes the hero’s place — on the cover and through the whole story — and every illustration paints again from your child’s photo, so they look like themselves on every page. The photo itself is never saved.
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Grandpa has made a Christmas Eve LIST — find a tree, make the trimmings, bake the gingerbread… with Parsnip the goat eating everything on the way. And at the very bottom, under a cocoa ring, one tiny line he just can't seem to read.
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The King and Queen are away till midnight, one prince is the ELDEST and the other the CLEVEREST — so they cut the palace in half with a crimson ribbon. A tree stuck in the door, a thousand candles blown out, a peacock stealing baubles… and one Crown Star only two brothers together can reach.
Ages 3–7From $39
The snow waited. The tree waited. The star waited. A robin on the sill, a knitted reindeer in the attic box, a stocking with your baby's name on it — everyone was waiting for someone very small. A hushed, tender keepsake of your little one's very first Christmas.
Ages 0–2From $39
A valentine for everyone — a tiny one for Bean the hamster, a fish heart on a stick for the grumpy cat, a thank-you for the postbox that never got a card, the most glitter for Grandma. When the bag is empty, everyone has a card except one. So Bean and Mabel the pigeon make the last one, for your child.
Ages 3–5From $39
Seven paper hearts in a pink basket — a sun, a flower, a cupcake, a book, a smile, a star, and a big red one for Mama. Down the street goes the little red wagon, and at every stop your child gives one away: “Snip, snip, a heart for you!” But Velvet the kitten keeps stealing them… A sweet, funny first Valentine's book about the kindness you give away — and how it comes right back.
Ages 2–5From $39
On St. Patrick's Day the wind snatches your child's lucky green hat — WHOOSH! — over the fence, past the daffodils, over the brook. And wherever it lands, a little luck lands too: a sail for Mossy the hare's stuck shamrock float, a boat for Dulcie the goose's lost whistle, a perfect fit for Barley, the shy badger who has never been in a parade. A breezy, funny chase about passing a little luck along.
Ages 3–6From $39
One sunflower seed planted in the snow, one ruler, and a very long wait. “Too early,” says Robin. “We'll see,” says your child. Nothing — still nothing — while underneath Sir Wiggles the crowned worm watches a root grow. Then one morning: green. A funny spring book about waiting for something wonderful to grow.
Ages 3–5From $39
One tulip bulb, one chalkboard and one very busy worm. Every morning your child checks the garden with a big magnifying glass and chalks a mark on the Spring-Watch board — nothing, nothing, NOTHING! — until Wriggle the earthworm pops up: “Not yet... but soon!” A crocus, a sprout, a late snow and a flowerpot house… and then one golden morning: NOW!
Ages 3–6From $39
It's Earth Day, and Sparkle Creek is cloudy and gray. “Who stole my SPARKLE?” booms Captain Croak, a very bossy frog — and he laughs at your child's little hands. So on go the orange gloves: a grabber, a net, three Crew Bags, and one more sparkle in the water for every piece picked up. A splashy, funny Earth Day book about caring for the place you love: little hands, big difference.
Ages 3–6From $39
Eleven chairs, eleven plates — and your child makes a crayon THANK-YOU for every one: a gravy spoon that came out like a fish, the blue sock Biscuit the dog FOUND, the peas card Biscuit ate (CRUNCH). Then everybody reads theirs out loud, and one plate has no card at all… until Grandma turns it over.
Ages 3–6From $39
A Thankful Table set for one, and a wish for a table FULL of friends. SPLISH! SPLASH! a polite raccoon pops up, FWUMP! a very nervous turkey peeks out (no turkey, just pie!), BOINK! a tiny squirrel lands on your child's head. Each friend brings a dish and a thankful leaf for the jar, and every time the table is too small, so it grows. There's always room for one more.
Ages 3–6From $39
Eight nights, one more candle every night in Bubbe's old brass menorah in the window. “Just ONE?” Right to left, newest first — then the dreidel, crispy latkes, a shadow show of the little jar of oil, the tzedakah box, jelly doughnuts in a blizzard… and the night the lamps go out and only the windows shine. A cozy, glowing Hanukkah counting book: one more light, one more night!
Ages 3–6From $39
Sunday is Mother's Day, and your child is going to give Mom EVERYTHING she loves best — the morning smell caught in a jam jar, the wobbly song she sings wrong on purpose, held shut in a tin can, a dandelion wish, the quiet scooped into a shoebox — all in one basket, all in their own handwriting. But on Sunday the basket is empty. Or is it?
Ages 3–6From $39
Shhh… it's Mama's Day! Puddle the duckling peeps the news, and your little one makes his sleepy Mama Duck a surprise breakfast before the sun peeks over the reeds — never bread! An oat avalanche, runaway peas, a crayon card and one very splashy dish of water, with Noodle the puppy “helping” every step. It's all a bit messy… and that makes it the BEST, because it was made with love.
Ages 2–5From $39
Dad comes home too tired to laugh at the welcome dance — so your child and Mister Toes, a very bossy sock puppet, draw a Laugh Map: a funny face, a cardboard-box show, the biggest pillow fort ever… and one last secret, level FOUR.
Ages 3–6From $39
One striped seed, ten Saturdays in Auntie's wild garden and one very impatient frog — until the sunflower is a whole head taller than Auntie, and the hats of Maple Street come over the hedge for the GARDEN PARTY.
Ages 3–6From $39
The Cloud Cake card is gone from the cherry tin, the birthday is tomorrow, and the only witness is a very fat, very guilty cat — so a small detective and their grandma go looking, and find a recipe no card could hold.
Ages 3–6From $39
Your child's preschool drawing has just three in it — Gran, Biscuit the old floppy-eared dog and your child. Is that a real home? On a dusk walk, window after window lights up: two dads and a baby, bouncing twins, a big table, a new big sister, a boy who comes to stay, three cats. Who lives here? LOVE lives here.
Ages 2–5From $39
Today is Family Day — the day your child came home! Ziggy the rescue pup came home on this day too, but Marmalade the old cat is fast asleep on the Family Day box. Inside: tiny shoes, one candle, a WELCOME HOME banner and a little heart-shaped key that fits the front door. Was this home waiting for me? It was — all along.
Ages 3–6From $39
