Harriet Hurry-Up and the Oh-So-Slow Day
Written by Allia Zobel Nolan, Illustrations by Alexandra Colombo
Releases August 2024
Most kids hate to wait. And Harry Hurry-up is no exception. The list of things she hates to wait for range from the oh-so-slow sun to come up in the morning, goopy syrup that takes forever to pour, and sprouts to bud on a potato in a learn and grow class experiment. This whimsically written, rhymed, picture book looks at why her impatience gets the better of her most days, but is off the charts on one particular day, how she unwittingly slows down with the help of God and her Grannie, and why she is so in a hurry in the first place. A surprise ending will have children shouting, “Read it to me again, pa-leeeeze.” The book is the perfect gift for birthdays, and is just right for back-to-school reading.
This charming book also:
- Centers on a universal challenge for children: waiting.
- Appeals to children with whimsical, sweet, and simple rhymed text.
- Introduces witty, saucy, relatable Fancy Nancy-type character.
- Focuses on why slowing down is important.
- Encourages children to trust in God’s timing.
- Demonstrates how being in tune with their surroundings can help children wait.
- Hooks children in with vivid, colorful kid-friendly illustrations.
- Engages children with a story about feelings they can relate to.
- Includes a surprise ending that will have kids clapping for joy.
God Made Us Just Right
Written by Allia Zobel Nolan, illustrations by Katy Hudson
Board book
18 pages
ISBN-10 : 0825446635
ISBN-13 : 978-0825446634
Reading level : 3 – 5 years
Publisher: Kregel Publishing
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Why do puppies bark, but kittens can’t? Why do elephants have long trunks when other animals don’t? What’s the point of all these differences? God has a reason for creating the animals just the way they are. And he has a reason for making you unique as well. Through whimsical animal illustrations and warmhearted rhymes, young children will learn that our Loving God made all of His creations unique…on purpose.
Kids who always ask, “Why, Mom?” and “How come, Dad?” will easily relate to the back-and-forth question-and-answer format. What’s more, God Made Us Just Right is the perfect tool for parents, caregivers, grandparents, teachers, and clergy to teach several vital messages including that:
- God’s love created us all differently, but “just right,” on purpose
- God had a plan and a design when he made the animals…no two are the same
- God has a plan and design for us as well
- each one of us is unique
- God made us with oodles of love, “just right” so we shouldn’t compare ourselves to anyone else and
- the God who created the world loves diversity and he loves us just the way he created us.
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What I Like About You: A Book About Acceptance
By Allia Zobel Nolan, Line Drawings by Mary pat Pino
ISBN: 978-0-578-57266-6 Soft
ISBN: 978-0-578-64127-0 Hard
32 pages
Ages 1-6
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The children’s picture book, What I Like About You: A Book About Acceptance, has received a 2020 Indie Book Award for Children’s Picture Books by the world’s largest not-for-profit book awards program for independent publishers and self-published authors, The Next Generation Indie Book Awards Program. Top books were named as winners and finalists in more than 70 publishing categories ranging from action/adventure to young author.
With fun photos, diversity messages, and a chart for keeping track of new friends, this heartfelt book introduces children to kids who are not their mirror image, helping them understand that, though we may all look different, we are, deep down, pretty much the same. This sequel to the bestseller and Mom’s Choice Award Winner, “What I Like About Me,” is written in kid-friendly rhyme and also includes notes to both the reader as well as parents, grandparents, and educators. The perfect tool for teaching youngsters about diversity and friendship.
“Throughout the book, kids get a chance to see children who aren’t their mirror image judged by the narrator on whether they’re nice, smart, funny, kind, silly, etc.,” says Zobel Nolan. “This helps them understand that these attributes are not mutually exclusive to any one race or culture. Anyone can be nice, loyal, fun.”
Zobel Nolan is hoping the book can be used by schools, churches, and other organizations to foster tolerance, understanding, and acceptance.
What’s more, one dollar of the sale of each book will be donated to the Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary. Located in Newtown, Connecticut, CVH’s mission is to enrich the lives of all beings by promoting compassion and acceptance through programs that honor the human-animal bond. Learn more at: https://cvhfoundation.org/
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU: A Book about Acceptance is available on Amazon and is distributed through Ingram to all major bookstores, libraries, and wherever books are sold.
Samples of Inside Spreads from WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU: A Book About Acceptance.
Smelly Feet Sandwiches
By Allia Zobel Nolan, illustrated by Kate Leake
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN-13: 978-1-58925-836-5
22 pages
Ages 2-7
Warning: smelly feet sandwiches may cause giggles, snorts, and side-splitting laughter…. A wonderfully wacky, kid-pleasing collection of poems guaranteed to have you in stitches—this hilarious book stars a cast of irrepressible characters taking on burps, gremlins, boredom, an ingenious bathroom invention, and much, more.
Bunnies Are For Kissing
By Allia Zobel Nolan, illustrated by Jacqueline East
What are bunnies for? Kissing, of course! And hugging, too. But that’s not the half of it. Follow along as Bunny goes through his day with the support and love of his parents who show him in so many ways, just how special he is. An adorable spring-time book that celebrates the bond parents have with their little bunnies. Perfect for Easter, spring, or just because.
Mrs. McGee’s Coconut
By Allia Zobel Nolan, illustrated by Peter Cottrill
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN-13: 978-1-58925-079-6
32 pages
Ages 4-8
When Mrs. McGee buys a coconut, she discovers that opening it isn’t as easy as she’d expected. She tries everything, until she whacks it so hard the coconut rolls out her front door and bounds into town! The coconut is soon leaping into a party tent, knocking out a cat, and thundering down a bowling lane. And wherever the coconut goes, the Mrs. isn’t far behind… More fun than a barrel of coconuts…
From Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2009: A runaway coconut stirs up worldwide mischief. It all starts when Mrs. McGee, a colorful figure with wild hair and a bright flowered skirt, buys a coconut. Back home, she can’t crack it open, even with a golf club; it goes bouncing down the hill, breaking up a tea party and boinking a cat named O’Mally on the head. Just as the coconut bounces through a bowling alley, Mrs. McGee hops onto her motorbike in hot pursuit. Before she can catch it, the coconut bounces onto a ship bound for Kashmir, where a monkey snatches it and easily cracks it open by dropping it from a high branch. Back home in Tennessee, Mrs. McGee contemplates the bag of walnuts she’s just bought. The rhyming text rollicks well enough, though geographically savvy readers will wonder what happened to the coconut’s headlong career during the long voyage from Tennessee (via the Mississippi, one assumes) to landlocked Kashmir. A breezy escapade, decorated with loopily eye-catching illustrations from Cottrill, this defines “additional purchase.”
When God Turned On The Light
Written by: Allia Zobel Nolan – Illustrations by Linda Clearwater
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 978-0736949675
32 pages
All Ages
This delightful book gives young readers a front-row seat as God’s love explodes and the world gets its start. The book then shifts to the important role light plays in a child’s everyday world, and finally segues to God’s gift of the ultimate Light of the world: Jesus.
Written in rhyme and filled with exquisitely vivid illustrations by Linda Clearwater, WHEN GOD TURNED ON THE LIGHT demonstrates how God’s light gives life to everything, from the corn in the field to the cat’s tiger-like shadow on the wall. What’s more, it teaches children that Jesus is indeed the holy personification of Light, the One who makes their the universe brighter, the One Who lives in their heart.
What I Like About Me
by Allia Zobel Nolan, Illustrated by Miki Sakamoto
Publisher: Reader’s Digest Children’s Publisher
12 pages
Ages 2-8
Winner of the 2005 Mom’s Choice Award for the Most Oustanding Children’s Book for Preschooolers.
iParenting Award for Greatest Product of 2005.
Essence Magazine rated this book among the best books and toys of 2005.
Dennie Hughes of USATODAY.COM made this comment about What I Like About Me!:
“If you want to pick up a wonderful book for kids to celebrate diversity and acceptance, try What I Like ABout Me! I gave thid book to my Godchild, who is four. She loved it and the message it celebrated that big feet, glasses, and crazy hair are things to be admired, maybe even coveted, not made fun of.”
