Local Author: Michelle Teegarden

This is your chance to chat with the author, delve into their creative process, and purchase their book(s).


Author Bio: Michelle Teegarden is a children's author crafting both heartfelt, faith‑based picture books and lively, comedic middle‑grade adventure tales. She brings both heart and imagination to the stories she creates for young readers.

Title of Books: The Little Pink Boat and Sam vs the Weather

Description of Books: The Little Pink Boat is gentle and heartfelt picture book about a timid and frightened little boat who discovers courage through faith while it faces the journey to the unknown. Based on the author's personal experience - turned into a symbolic allegory for children to remind them they are not alone.
Sam vs the Weather is humorous story for middle-grade readers about Samantha Harper, a 14 year-old girl who tries to keep a hilariously uncooperative cast of weather characters under control before everything spirals into chaos. Each weather character has a whacky personality of their own that makes the story wildly entertaining.