Chapter Books
Stories for curious readers finding their own way in a wonderfully strange world.
Early chapter books are where reading begins to feel like an adventure of your own.
Created for growing readers ready for bigger characters, bigger questions, and a little more independence, these stories keep the imagination, humor, warmth, and wonder of childhood firmly intact.
Here, curious children don't always accept the world exactly as they find it. They explore it. Question it. Get things spectacularly wrong sometimes. Make unexpected friends. Discover strange and wonderful things. And gradually begin figuring out who they are within it.
From Tallulah Froom's wonderfully unconventional adventures to the soon-to-arrive students of The Beautiful Witch, these books celebrate children who are curious, creative, different, and still becoming themselves.
Readers will discover:
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Unusual and memorable characters
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Humor, imagination, mystery, and adventure
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Vocabulary and ideas that grow alongside emerging readers
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Friendship, curiosity, identity, courage, and belonging
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Plenty of reasons to ask, “What happens next?”
Written for children beginning to read more independently—but created for anyone who believes the world gets more interesting when we ask another question.
Read independently. Stay curious. Find your own way.
The Adventures of Tallulah Froom
For curious readers who know ordinary is highly overrated.
Welcome to Dancey Chance, where trees take vacations, words matter, imagination has a little magic of its own, and Tallulah Froom never, ever, never, ever, never leaves home without her lucky polka-dot umbrella.
Tallulah is curious, creative, wonderfully unconventional, and always ready to investigate whatever strange thing happens next. Alongside her cousins Giggy and Jespa, her dog Dirty, and the delightfully unusual residents of Dancey Chance, she encounters mysteries, mishaps, peculiar traditions, extraordinary words, and plenty of reasons to question what everyone else considers “normal.”
But beneath the whimsy, The Adventures of Tallulah Froom celebrates something important: the confidence to be unusual, the curiosity to keep asking questions, and the imagination to see possibilities where other people might not.
Each Un-Book combines independent reading with vocabulary, wordplay, humor, and imaginative adventures designed to make growing readers want to keep turning pages.
Be curious. Be unusual. Bring your umbrella.
The Aventures of Tallulah Froom Un-Book One
What if being unusual is actually something worth celebrating?
Tallulah Froom has one blue eye and one grey eye, four freckles she calls the Chicken Coop, a little brother named Spoon, a dog named Dirty, and hair she paints whenever ordinary simply won't do.
And then there's Dancey Chance.
It's the kind of town where trees head south for root soaks, Tallulah's teacher is a kangaroo, her grandmother might be a witch, and carrying a polka-dot umbrella when it isn't raining makes perfect sense.
Across Tallulah's adventures, young readers encounter unusual words, unusual people, unexpected problems, and a girl beginning to discover that different doesn't mean wrong. When Tallulah worries that her own creation is too unusual, she learns that ordinary and predictable aren't always things worth aspiring to-and sometimes unusual can be refreshing and wonderful.
Why readers will love it: for chlidren who love strange words, silly situations, imaginative worlds, and characters who refuse to be ordinary, Un-Book One turns reading into an invitation to notice just how interesting difference can be.
Perfect for: growing independent readers • vocabulary lovers • imaginative children • delightfully unconventional kids
Reader takeaway: Don't ever stop being unusual!
Resource: My Unsusual Adventure Book
The Adventures of Tallulah Froom Un-Book Two
What happens when imagination goes missing?
The Story Blossoms have disappeared from the Feathered Crow bookstore. These tiny paper fairies do something extraordinarily important: they help readers find the imagination inside stories. Without them, books risk becoming nothing more than words on a page.
So Tallulah, Giggy, Jespa, Dirty, and the residents of Dancey Chance begin searching.
What starts off as a wonderfully peculiar mystery becomes a celebration of reading itself—of becoming absorbed in a story, seeing worlds inside words, and protecting the curiosity and wonder that books awaken in us.
Because perhaps imagination doesn't disappear when we grow older. Perhaps sometimes we simply forgot to use it.
By the end, children and grown-ups alike discover that bringing the Story Blooms home requires more than reading words: they must immerse themselves in the story and allow their imaginations to become "free and wild."
Why readers will love it: Part mystery, part word adventure, and part love letter to books, Un-Book Two is for children who have ever disappeared inside a story and the grown-ups who hope they never stop.
Perfect for: book lovers• emerging independent readers • imaginative thinkers • young detectives • classroom and library reading
Reader takeaway: Reading fules your imagination!
Resource: The Story Bloom Field Guide
The Adventures of Tallulah Froom Un-Book Three
Growing up doesn't mean giving up what makes you extraordinary.
Tallulah Froom is back with a homemade cat suit, an opinionated flying carpet, her lucky polka-dot umbrella, and another collection of very unusual problems.
This time, however, some of the questions are getting bigger.
What makes something fair? How do we measure character? What happens when no one is watching? How do we listen instead of assume? And how do we decide what kind of person we want to become?
When Tallulah encounters an invention called the Unfair Ruler, she learns that it doesn't measure height, size, or success. It measures character. But only when no one is watching.
Through five new adventures in Un-Book Three, Tallulah's wonderfully strange world grows alongside her, inviting readers to think about fairness, character, identity, empathy, and becoming without losing the whimsy that makes Dancey Chance extraordinary.
For readers who are growing up but have absolutely no intention of becoming ordinary
The Beautiful Witch
A school for misfits. A witch who doesn't fit in. A world learning that different doesn't need fixing.
In Swamp Bottom, witches are supposed to be ugly.
Etta Twig has a problem.
She's Beautiful.
Born with lavender skin, turquise eyes, and soft punk hair, Etta has spent her life standing out in a world where beauty is considered something shameful. Her parents refuse to hide who she is, even when they're warned that being different may make Etta's life harder.
Eventually, Etta finds herself at Mummy's School for Misfits: Where Unusual is Usual, a school filled with monsters who don't quite fit the expectations of the worlds they came from.
There she discovers something much bigger than magic.
She discovers belonging.
Alongside, Bettina, Gord, Sylvia, Sixpence, Theodore, and the other Misfits, Etta begins asking difficult questions about identity, fairness, tradition, courage, friendship, and the rules people inherit simply because "that's the way it's always been."
And sometimes, the Misfits discover, fitting in isn't nearly as important as making room.
Where unusual is usual - and every misfit belongs.
The Beautiful Witch
and the Misfits
What if the thing that makes you different is the thing that makes you extraordinary?
Etta Twig has always been the odd witch out.
In Swamp Bottom, monsters celebrate warts, crooked teeth, fangs, and green skin. Etta's lavender face, pink hair, and turquoise eyes make her unmistakably, and unfortunately, beautiful.
When being different finally makes Swamp Bottom unsafe for her, Etta is sent to Mummy's School for Misfits, a strange school for monsters who don't quite belong anywhere else.
There she meets a shy vampire, an emotional werewolf, an upside-down bat, a humming banshee, a spider poet, and other students who are discovering that there may be more than one way to be a monster.
For the first time, Etta begins wondering whether she needs to change at all.
Funny, magical, and tender. The Beautiful Witch and the Misfits is a story about identity, friendship, courage, and finding the people who make it possible to become more fully yourself.
Why readers will love it: behind the monsters, magic, slime, warts, and wonderfully weird school is a question nearly every child eventually asks: is there somewhere I belong exactly as I am? Etta's answer begins with the Misfits.
Perfect for: growing independent readers • children navigating difference • friendship stories • magical-school fans • classroom conversations about belonging and acceptance
Reader takeaway: Different doesn't need fixing!
Resource: Official Mispit Enrollment Packet
The Beautiful Witch
and the Haunted Homework
What happens when the rules recide who you're allowed to be?
A new semester has begun at Mummu's School for Misfits. For the first time, witches, trolls, werewolves, banshees, gargoyles, goblins, and other creatures are learning together.
There's just one problem.
The school's ancient Rulebook doesn't approve.
For four hundred years, monsters have been told where they belong: vampires with vampires, werewolves with werewolves, and witches with witches. When the school begins changing those traditions, the Rulebook wakes and decides that if the student won't follow the Old Ways, the Old Ways will follow them.
Soon, homework begins rewriting itself, telling students what proper monsters should think, feel, study, and become. A werewolf is told not to show emotion. A vampire is told friendship is a distraction. A goblin is told she's naturally bad at mathematics.
Etta realizes this isn't magic designed to teach them.
It's magic designed to control them.
And this time, being a Misfit means deciding whether some rules deserve to be followed at all.
Why readers will love it: Haunted Homework uses an irresistible premise—homework that literally judges you—to explore conformity, stereotypes, fairness, responsibility, and finding the courage to question something that hurts others. And the Misfits aren't simply becoming braver. They're learning to use their individual strengths for one another.
Perfect for: independent readers • classroom discussions • children beginning to question fairness • fans of magical school adventures • readers who enjoy humor with something meaningful underneath
Reader takeaway: Rules should help people, not decide who they are!
Resource: The Forbidden Rulebook
The Beautiful Witch
and the Mixed-Up Magic Fair
What if our magic works better because it isn't the same?
Swamp Bottom is attempting something it has never done before: an Integrated Monster Magic Fair.
Witches will work with trolls. Goblins with vampires. Banshees with anyone brave enough to volunteer.
The idea is simple: combine different kinds of magic and discover what they can create together.
Except magic isn't always simple.
Long ago, monsters gathered on the same land to mix their powers in a practice called weaving. Sometimes the results were beautiful. Sometimes dangerous. But the magic worked only when every thread held. Eventually, the creatures separated, the experiments stopped, and that old magic sank into the earth.
Now the Magic Fair has awakened it.
As Etta and her friends experiment with combining their very different abilities, they discover that cooperation isn't about making everyone the same.
It's about learning how to listen.
Because sometimes the most extraordinary magic happens when nobody is asked to disappear into someone else's.
Why readers will love it: Mixed-Up Magic Fair takes the series' idea of belonging one important step further. Book one asks: can I belong when I'm different? Book two asks: who made the rules about how I'm supposed to be? Book three asks: what can we create because we're different?
Perfect for: collaborative classrooms • friendship groups • creative thinkers • children learning teamwork • readers who love magical mishaps
Reader takeaway: Different isn't the obstacle. Different is part of the magic.
The Compass Keeper
Something new is on the horizon!
A new three-book adventure series coming 2027!
The sea is always telling you something. You just have to know where to look.
Meet Zeb—a young sailor who notices what everyone else misses.
She reads wind, watches water, studies charts, measures before she guesses, and has spent years quietly teaching herself how the sea works. When Zeb spots land where her father's chart says there should be nothing but open ocean, she doesn't simply accept that the map must be right.
She investigates.
Because maps can be wrong. Adults can miss things. And sometimes the person everyone should be listening to is the one who has been paying attention all along.
In The Compass Keeper Trilogy, adventure and real-world observation meet aboard the Black Gull, where Zen, Finn, Captain Morgan, and an extraordinarily unhelpful capuchin monkey named Atlas encounter mysterious islands, dangerous weather, ocean currents, hidden histories, and discoveries that challenge what they thought they knew.
Along the way, readers learn to do what Zeb does:
Observe. Question. Measure. Look Again.
And, eventually, trust what the evidence is telling them.
Three voyages. One compass. A girl learning to trust what she knows.