Every one of these started the same way. A daughter or son, already half asleep, asking for just one more.
These are the stories a father made up at bedtime for his own three children, written down and illustrated so other families can climb into the same bed and ask for one more too.
See Our Books Our Promise to Parents"No, Daddy. Do Made Up Stories. Do Made Up Stories."
Night after night, three children piled into one bed and asked for the same thing. Not a book off the shelf. A made up story, invented on the spot, about wherever their imagination wanted to wander that night. A pumpkin patch. A haunted campout. A family that looked a lot like their own.
Somewhere along the way, one of those children never stopped remembering it. Maggie's Stories is what happens when those bedtime stories finally get written down and illustrated, so they can be read aloud in other families' beds too.
These books come from a father who lived every one of these bedtimes himself, three times over. That is the standard each story has to meet before it goes in the book.
A story might have a scarecrow, a ghost, or a shadow on a tent wall. It never leaves a child there. Every worry in these books gets a warm hand to hold before the page turns.
Each book carries something worth remembering, the kind of quiet lesson a family talks about after the lights go out, never spelled out as a moral at the end.
Every story in this library was told at a real bedtime first, to real children, before it was ever written down. You are handing your child a memory, not a manuscript.
One book to start. Nine more good-night stories are already on their way.
The Little Pumpkin Nobody Picked. A warm autumn story about waiting for the one person who sees you differently.
A flashlight, a crackling fire, and just enough of a chill to make everyone scoot closer together.
Tell us what your family thought, share a photo of your own "just right" pumpkin, or just say hello.
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