My Books

The World’s Best Christmas Light, Zonderkidz, 2025

Spark little readers’ holiday spirit with The World’s Best Christmas Light! In this rhyming, read-aloud board book, a family sets out to find the best Christmas lights in town. But the colorful displays and animated figurines can’t compete with the brightest light of all—God’s love shining through a humble nativity scene. With beautiful starlight glowing on the last page, The World’s Best Christmas Light offers children a lovely reminder of the real reason for the season.

Chalk the Walk, Familius Publishing, 2025

Take to the sidewalk with this colorful picture book to inspire artistic expression and imagination!

A pair of adorable siblings explores the incredible power of a piece of chalk, transforming the world around them. With people of all ages from their neighborhood coming along, they use their bucket of chalk to make some sidewalk magic.

Seasons on the Farm, Sleeping Bear Press, 2025

On a farm, each season arrives with new jobs to do—crops to plant, animals to tend to, and fields to harvest. Readers get an insider’s look at what spring, summer, fall, and winter look like on a family farm, from adorable baby animals to rumbling tractors and pumpkins to pies. This sweet, rhyming story is perfect for young readers, whether their home is on a farm or not!

God Made You Too, Worthy Kids, 2022

God made you. But why? After all, he made great galaxies and vast oceans and fascinating flamingoes. Isn’t that enough?  
Through brilliant rhymes and vivid word pictures, author Chelsea Tornetto reminds little readers that to God, the mountains and the whales and the snowflakes were never enough. To our loving Creator, the beautiful world that he made was always incomplete without one very special piece—you.

God made you. But why? After all, he made great galaxies and vast oceans and fascinating flamingoes. Isn’t that enough?  
Through brilliant rhymes and vivid word pictures, author Chelsea Tornetto reminds little readers that to God, the mountains and the whales and the snowflakes were never enough. To our loving Creator, the beautiful world that he made was always incomplete without one very special piece—you. 

Gardens Are For Growing, Familius Publishing, 2022

In this tender poem, the love between a father and daughter blossoms alongside the seeds they plant together. As the garden grows, the daughter grows from a toddler to a teen and finally to a woman with a child of her own. The cottagecore illustrations beautifully connect the seasons of nature with the seasons of life, where new beginnings abound.

Conquering Content Vocabulary, Scholastic, 2018

Learning domain-specific vocabulary requires more than just memorizing definitions. Students must understand how the various terms connect with one another in order to fully internalize the content they need to know. Concept sorts are the answer! This book details how best to use concept sorts and includes extension activities and reproducible word and picture cards for 15 key topics in science, social studies, and math. A remarkably easy way to expand students” vocabulary and comprehension!