Books from Coddiwomple

One world, five books so far: a middle-grade novel and four picture books, all set in and around a floating sky academy where magic costs you your memories.

Explore the world and read a sample chapter at coddiwomplebooks.com

Cover of Dr. Frog and the Sky Panda Query Status: Pending

Dr. Frog and the Sky Panda

Middle-grade fantasy novel · Book 1 of the Coddiwomple Series

Frog remembers everything, and it has never once been useful. Then red snow falls on his Georgia town, history starts rewriting itself, and his mom gets sick. To find answers, he must travel to a school at the end of time that opens on the first of September — and to get there, Frog will have to grab a rope hanging from the sky.

Concept art only — not the final cover. Art by Stacey K. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

  • Coddiwomple: Unschool of the Eastern Dregs crest
  • Thornwick: Unschool of the Southern Drifts crest
  • Grimwire: Unschool of the Western Willows crest
  • The three school ships moored side by side
  • The Bad Encounter above night clouds
  • The Nimbus Bus over a red desert
  • The LAW's flagship

Concept art: the three school crests and the airships of Nowhen. Art by hayilaaaa and gwentart; each piece is credited in its corner. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

Read Chapter 1 at coddiwomplebooks.com

The Knight Light Picture Books

A boy in striped pajamas holds a quarter up to a coin-slotted brass lamp as a stone fireplace appears in his bedroom wall

Four bedtime stories with the same small hero. When a child is scared of the dark, they say a rhyme, drop a quarter into a coin-slotted lamp, and a fireplace appears out of nowhere — and from it marches a tiny Knight in silver with a lantern on his sword. His light drives the shadows back, and whatever was hiding in them turns out to be a visitor who has been keeping careful track of the child's fibs, and of their kindnesses too.

Shadows are creeping, the room isn't right,
Come forth, little Knight, with your sword with the light!
I'll pay with a quarter, ker-PLINK and ker-PLIGHT,
Protect me from darkness, and guard me tonight!

Cover of Knight Light Query Status: Pending

Knight Light

Picture book · the first in the series

Shadows creep past a boy's door at bedtime, so he tries the rhyme his grandmother taught him. The Knight's light reveals a BookWyrm — a small dragon with ivy whiskers, sandy feet, and crooked glasses — who has been riding in the boy's bookbag and knows exactly how much of his homework he really finished.

Concept art only — not the final cover. Art by Stacey K. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

Cover of Coal Keeper Query Status: Available

Coal Keeper

Picture book · a Christmas story

On a snowy December night the Knight brings a small elf in a tie — not a RibbonRanger, BugGlitch, or GearGoblin, but a CoalKeeper, who serves Captain Jinglebeard and weighs every fib against every kindness to decide where a name goes on the list. The boy's room-cleaning shortcuts are on record. So is the cold kitten he fed.

Concept art only — not the final cover. Art by Stacey K. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

Cover of Sand Witch Query Status: Available

Sand Witch

Picture book

At a beach house, a boy's window swings open and in shuffles a SandWitch, crusted with bottle caps, wrappers, and yesterday's crusts. He left trash on her beach. He can clean it all up tonight — or take one bite of her and get a wish, along with the taste of every sandwich he has ever eaten. It is the silliest and stinkiest of the four.

Concept art only — not the final cover. Art by Stacey K. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

Cover of Sky Panda Query Status: Available

Sky Panda

Picture book

A girl on a night flight through a thunderstorm calls the Knight from her seat. His lantern turns the lightning to lace, and out of the clouds drifts a Sky Panda — part whale, part bear, emerald-eyed — one of the guardians who guide planes home and keep SkyPirates away. She has noticed the cookies the girl kept from her brother, and the blanket she once gave a shivering old man.

Concept art only — not the final cover. Art by Stacey K. Artwork is hand drawn and colored, and may be AI assisted, edited, or cropped.

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