Manuscripts - Works in Progress
WIND, WHERE DO YOU GO?
A child marvels at all the things a wind can do and realizes it is childlike just as himself. After a busy day the wind gets tired and needs a place to rest. This is a fun and easy to read story written in perfect rhyme for 4 - 8 year olds.
The book includes backmatter regarding a curious natural phenomenon.
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Tarja is currently querying literary agents and editors with this manuscript.
Writer: Tarja Nevala
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MY SIS AND I - Honorable Mention PBParty Contest 2024
My SIS AND I is like a song of sibling love, connection, accepting change, and belonging together in nature. Words flow together in a rhyming narrative from a child’s point of view. The child and her sister join in whimsical games around Nana and Pappa's prairie farm where excitement crescendos as imaginations grow — under a harvest moon.
MY SIS AND I is for 3 - 8 year olds. It is written in perfect rhyme and has "captured the spirit that makes classic giftable books".
Writer: Tarja Nevala
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SANTA QUIT ON CHRISTMAS
Santa’s toe is swollen huge just like a big goose egg.
And it is painful every time the old man moves his leg.
“I won’t be jolly, kind or quick! I won’t greet Ho Ho Ho!”
“This Christmastime I’ll take a break and help my ailing toe!”
And so begins the story of how SANTA QUIT CHRISTMAS. Mrs Claus had a solution but Santa was not ready to take advise until everything got a whole lot worse.
This is a fun and fast pace picture book story for children from 4 - 8 year olds. They will learn about making good choices, kindness, and staying positive.
Tarja is currently querying literary agents and editors with this manuscript.
Writer: Tarja Nevala
© Tarja Nevala
SOPHIE'S SURPRISE
This is a work in progress.
The setting is in a lush southern Appalachian Forest where the rare “blue ghost” firefly
lives.
This lyrical and fun to read aloud picture book relates of an unexpected friendship between a dog and a firefly.
Sophie is a real rescued mini pincher who lost her bark. In the story she meets James, a firefly, and becomes his friend and mentor — or is it the other way around?
SOPHIE and JAMES
capture the hearts and curious minds of children from 4 to 8 years of age.
SOPHIE'S SURPRISE is a story of an exciting evening of friendship, wisdom, healing, and surprise.
The book includes a fun fact page about fireflies.
Writer: Tarja Nevala
© Tarja Nevala
THE MONSTER UPSTAIRS
This is a work in progress.
Something went “ba-BUMP”, then “tha-THUMP”, and a small wide-eyed boy tries to sort it out. He lives in an old apartment building with gurgling pipes and a noisy neighbor whom the boy imagines as, THE MONSTER UPSTAIRS. The boy sits by his Mum and from that safe and cozy place, he tells a lyrical tale of two perspectives. Who is that monster anyway?
Adults and children alike can relate to a child's question, "Was--sat?", when there's a bump in the night. The book helps explain what noises may be and who or what THE MONSTER UPSTAIRS really is.
Writer: Tarja Nevala
© Tarja Nevala - 2021