Storybooks
Invites young children and grown-ups into gentle, beautifully illustrated adventures rooted in friendship, family, and ordinary child-world moments.
Act One
Welcome Home
Welcome to
Hawkins Hollow
Look who's home!
Hawkins Hollow is a warm, connected story world where children grow through friendship, family, reading, feelings, discovery, and meaningful participation in everyday life.
Visit the Storybook ShelfWelcome Home This Season
The porch light is on, and Hawkins Hollow is ready for your next visit.
Grandpa's Thought for Today
Act Two
Where would you like to begin today?
Choose any path. You do not have to start in one place to belong here.
Read a Story
Browse stories, reading paths, and shared-reading collections.
Meet a Character
Meet the friends and families who make Hawkins Hollow feel like home.
Visit a Place
Explore familiar places and see where a walk through Hawkins Hollow might lead.
Explore a Friendship
Follow relationships through connected stories and journeys.
Find a Family Activity
Find a shared activity, then continue into a related story.
Celebrate a Season
Discover seasonal story poems, gatherings, and neighborhood traditions.
Choose a shelf
Choose the kind of experience you want today
Each series is a different way into the same Hawkins Hollow world. Choose the kind of story, reading moment, or everyday discovery that fits today.
First Readers
Give children a welcoming place to begin reading with greater independence through short pages, small cast, clear illustrations, and story-native sound/word/sequence work.
Second Readers
Early chapter-book stories for children ready to stay with a question across a longer adventure, following clues and working through a child-sized mystery.
Basic Training
Turns useful everyday skills into warm adventures where the story creates a real need to participate, with children watching characters choose tools, try tasks, and discover they can help.
Growing Together
Follows children into real situations involving friendship, fairness, responsibility, leadership, inclusion, belonging, health, nature, routines, and community care.
Bedtime Library
Brings the Hollow to evening pace with one last thought, object, question, routine, or look at the settling world carrying a child toward enough, quiet, and rest.
Tender Times
Offers children a warm place to meet difficult feelings without being hurried toward a happy answer, through honest language, small participation, and steady relationships.
Holiday Story Poems
Invites children and families into complete seasonal, holiday, family, and community stories told through gentle narrative verse and cinematic watercolor-and-ink illustrations.
Hero Play Poems
Introduce young readers to real historical men and women through one defining, age-appropriate moment from each person's life, with the Hawkins Hollow cast presenting each memory as a small respectful community play.
Sing and say together
Songs and rhymes from Hawkins Hollow
Bring Hawkins Hollow into the room, the car, the classroom, or a quiet moment together with songs and nursery rhymes made for joining in.
Featured Paths
If this is your first visit
Try one of these gentle pathways and see where your curiosity leads.
Each path connects a person, a place, and a story so new visitors can understand how the world fits together.
Something Grandpa noticed today: Notice - The orchard feels especially peaceful today.
If you feel like a short walk, the path starts there.
Meet Spencer
Path: Meet Spencer -> Visit Old Oak -> Read Spencer's Sound Trail
Looking for Bedtime?
Path: Visit Bedtime Library -> Meet Grandma -> Read Together
Family Activity Path
Path: Open Resources -> Pick an activity -> Continue with a related story
Act Four
When you are ready to take a story home
Books matter in Hawkins Hollow, but they come after welcome, belonging, and discovery.
If today's walk introduced a story your family loves, you can bring that title home and keep the conversation going tonight.
The invitation is simple: explore first, connect deeply, and then choose the books that fit your family best.