MousterWorks
Angela C. Hawkins
Gnome Road Publishing, 1 April 2025
Cosette and Pépin have joined Grand-mère for a visit to the MousterWorks Art Museum—and you’re invited! As you explore each gallery in this picture book, the paintings will awaken your senses and imaginations. But will Pépin find the cheese he’s looking for?
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Extra! Extra! Learn more about the art and artists, find coloring pages and artsy activities, browse the gift shop, and more at MousterWorks.com. Grand Opening 1 April 2025!
Nancy Bess Had a Dress
Claire Annette Noland, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Gnome Road Publishing, Spring 2024
After the family flour sack is emptied, Nancy Bess remakes it into a dress, only to find new uses for it as her needs change with the passing seasons. This exploration of repurposing and recycling in days gone by will have young readers in the modern era thinking of new ways to make do with what they have around them!
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Editorial Reviews:
Nancy Bess and her multi-purpose flour sack will make an excellent story for history units and environmental lessons, with the story’s gentle pitch for conservation and repurposing. A delightful addition to all primary library shelves.
— Tracy Cronce, School Library Journal
A resourceful girl imparts a history lesson and a message on sustainability in this period picture book . . . Bold colors and whimsical patterns stitch together to form dynamic illustrations as Nancy Bess skips along a creek’s edge, balances pies on her head, and picks oranges.
— Danielle Ballentyne, Foreward Magazine
. . . Noland’s writing is lovely. The colorful illustrations by Angela C. Hawkins are simply enchanting with marvelous details filling every page and complementing the story perfectly. Kids will love this beautiful book.
— Rosi Hollenbeck, Los Angeles Book Review
Children will enjoy seeing (and guessing?) how Nancy Bess will next use the pretty patterned cloth. The recurrent phrase,
— Elizabeth Caulfield Felt, Historical Novel SocietyNancy Bess knew how to make do
is catchy. The full-page, colorful illustrations hide a second story, revealed at the end. Delightful.
Look at that Squid!
Rebecca Cronin, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Heinemann, Jump Rope Readers, 2023
A young girl and her parents enjoy a trip to the aquarium and are fascinated as they learn all kinds of facts about squids.
Only available as a non-fiction series through Heinemann.
See the Crabs!
Rebecca Cronin, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Heinemann, Jump Rope Readers, Fall 2023
A young girl and her parents enjoy a trip to the aquarium to learn all kinds of facts about crabs.
Only available as a non-fiction series through Heinemann.
It’s Grann!
Arlaene Elizabeth Casimir, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Heinemann, Jump Rope Readers, 2022
Lalin and her family are thrilled to welcome Grann for a visit from Haiti—but they know she won’t be thrilled with their messy house. In this early reader, Lalin and her family work together to make Grann’s visit extra special.
Only available as a series through Heinemann.
Maggie’s Secret Garden
Thurston Pope, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Palmetto Publishing Group, Summer 2019
An outdoor adventure unlike any other! Maggie takes finding buried treasure to a different level when a new world is uncovered in her backyard.
Forgotten for more than a decade, sidewalks in an overgrown azalea garden find new life when Maggie’s Uncle T. uncovers them section by section. Uncle T. wants Maggie and her siblings to share in the fun he experienced as a child on the garden sidewalks, which were his favorite spot for riding bikes, building forts, and playing games.
In today’s world overcome with technology there are many outdoor treasures waiting to be discovered, some of which may be in our own backyards. Rediscovering this amazing place ignites the childhood spirit. What was lost is now found in this true story that is too good not to share with the world.
Available through Amazon.
Thunder & a Lightning Bug Named Lou
Rosalind Bunn, author
Angela C. Hawkins, illustrator
Deeds Publishing, 2017
Lou is a little lightning bug with a big problem—his light is too bright. But as Lou soon discovers, sometimes what makes you different is what makes you special.
