The Land of Limsley series
Picture books about the hard parts of being small. Interrupting, big feelings, siblings, and all the different ways a person needs to be told they are loved. Written by Shelby Haugen, available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
A book about big voices and staying close
Limsley Farm is very big and Dot the chick is very small. Dot is curious about everything, and a little scared of it too. Mama Hattie has one rule: stay close. Then a shiny green grasshopper hops past Dot's toes, and she follows it hop by hop into the tall grass, and she does not see the hawk. Mama Hattie does.
A story about interrupting, wanting to belong, and learning to listen
Spout is the biggest whale in the kelp forest, and he has so much to say that every time a friend starts a story he opens his mouth and swallows them mid-sentence. He is not being rude. He just wants his friends to know he is like them. A book about interrupting that goes further than wait your turn.
A story about big feelings, calm down tools that actually work, and what to do when you blow your top anyway
Most children's books about anger stop at take a deep breath. This one keeps going. Rumble is a volcano, green from his toes to his tippy-top, and he asks the stomping and the arguing to stop. Nobody listens. He blows his top anyway, and the story turns to what happens next.
A book about how people feel loved
You say I love you every day. Is it landing? Paulie the penguin loves pebbles, so pebbles are what he gives his best friend Oat, and it is not the thing Oat has been waiting for. A book about the different ways a person needs to be shown.
A picture book about big reactions, second looks, and a very fashionable spider
A spider with excellent taste. A lady with a hundred shoes. One very large scream. Sadie has been swept off a porch, shooed out of a shed and blown clean out of a mailbox. Then she spots a closet with rows and rows and rows of shoes.
A book about siblings
Every sibling book ends with share. This one is about what happens after the fight anyway. Brownie does all the right things first. She counts her hooves, she walks to the fence, she takes a big breath of farm air. Then Cookie says the worst thing, and she butts him off the rock regardless.
Every book in the series, read aloud. Short enough for a car ride, gentle enough for bedtime, and free. Press play on any story below, or follow the show in your podcast app so new ones turn up on their own.
Narrated with an AI voice.
New titles appear on the Amazon series page as soon as they go live.
