Current & Future Titles from Moonflower Press

Good news! Cicada City: A Bug Club Hotel Story was fully funded on Kickstarter and is going to be a real book near the end of 2021!

As Jaylen, Hyacinth and Sakura learn about cicadas in real life, they create a fantasy city for the abandoned cicada shells they collect, go viral on social media with parental guidance, and organize a fundraiser for their local nature center.

Fun facts and inclusive, imaginative play for kids 3-8.

I Don’t Want to be Scary on Halloween is the heartwarming story of a sweet little opossum who doesn’t want to scare anyone in her costume. Her best friends, Pepper Porcupine and Sassy Skunk are here to help. Now available! In time for Halloween.

Ages 3-8.

Opossums to the Rescue – the thrilling conclusion to the opossum series, is finally here! Fans of Mama Opossum’s Misadventures have been waiting almost a year to find out how Baby Mouse will get back to her family.

Baby Mouse is snuggled in with the opossums – Will you help Mama and the joeys find her family? Compare and contrast with animals they meet! Ages 3-8.
Now available on Amazon and Etsy.
Les opossums à la rescousse is now available too!

Cats & Dogs Make the Best of Friends  – My first book co-staring humans AND animals. Sage and Jaz have been best friends forever. They love all the same things. But what happens when Sage’s family adopts kittens and Jaz’s family brings home a puppy dog?

This sweet new title about friendship is now available in French and English. Ages 3-8.

Mama Opossum’s Misadventures Mama Opossum waddles along looking for breakfast, carrying her 10 babies on her back. When she takes a tumble, each one rolls off in a different direction. Help Mama find her babies, you’ll meet a whole village of other nocturnal animals along the way. Will you help?

The French version – Les mésaventures de Maman Opossum – is now available, too. Spanish is coming soon!

Opossum Opposites A wild new take on opposites from the point of view of an opossum – one of our most common, but least understood backyard animals. Memorable rhymes & impressive facts for kids ages 3-8.

Available in French, English, and Spanish. All three language versions are available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover formats. 

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Mama Opossum’s Misadventures: Coming in September 2020

Here’s our final cover – isn’t it beautiful?

I’m thrilled to announce the *near* completion of my second book, Mama Opossum’s Misadventures! Join us on this nighttime quest to find 10 missing joeys.

Opossum Opposites is a nonfiction book meant to educate kids and adults about how wonderful opossums are. Mama Opossum’s Misadventures takes readers on a fictional nocturnal journey with these charming creatures as they meet their forest friends – and even a foe!

But all ends well for the Opossum family. Soon, you’ll be able to discover how they are all reunited in the morning light after a very eventful night.

Continue reading Mama Opossum’s Misadventures: Coming in September 2020