Children's books
Where the stories begin
Every part of Cottage Creek Garden grows out of these pages. Gentle stories about belonging, mistakes, and growing — with sight words highlighted for early readers and notes for the grown-ups reading along.
Moss Finds His Spot
A story about belonging.
Shy tortoise Moss feels lost and wonders where he belongs. With help from his friends Pip, Sunny, Clover, and others, he searches the garden — from the sunflower beds to the open sky — until he finds his perfect spot beneath the old weeping willow.
Theo Waters the Weeds
A story about mistakes — and what grows from them.
Little Theo is certain he can help Grandma Bea in the garden all by himself. He waters the tomatoes, the beans, the carrots… and then pulls every last one of the scraggly green plants that definitely don't belong. Except they were Grandma Bea's lavender seedlings.
Instead of scolding, Grandma Bea kneels in the dirt beside him and shares her own biggest gardening mistake — the summer she planted carrots upside down, every single one.
Sunny Plants a Party
A story about big hearts and beautiful messes.
Sunny the sunflower has the biggest heart in the garden — and absolutely cannot keep a secret. When she sets out to throw the best surprise party Cottage Creek Garden has ever seen, everything that can go delightfully sideways does.
A warm read-aloud about generosity, friendship, and the joy of a plan that doesn't quite go to plan.
Pip and the Underneath
A story about the small work nobody sees.
Everyone in Cottage Creek Garden has a job you can see. Everyone except Pip. While Sunny shades the lettuce and Clover zips from flower to flower, Pip goes bumpety, bumpety, bump — down where nobody is looking. And when little Theo asks what HIS job is, Pip realizes he doesn't have an answer.
But when the tomato bed grows tired and droopy, the smallest bug in the garden turns out to be the only one who knows what to do — because beneath every good garden there is a busy, glowing world hard at work: the Underneath.
On sale July 10, 2026
Meet the friends from the garden
Moss, Pip, Sunny, Clover, Theo, Grandma Bea, and Mari — the characters every story grew from.
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