Stories from Parkwood — the mountain town where musical instruments are the townspeople, and every page is a new adventure your child will beg to hear again.
Each book is crafted to spark creativity, teach resilience, and share the joy of music — values that stay with your child long after the last page.
Written by a guitarist and father, these stories naturally weave the joy and calming power of music into adventures kids can relate to and learn from.
Jackson teaches perseverance. Eklig teaches community. Santa teaches creativity. Each story plants seeds that grow long after story time ends.
Colorful pages that bring Parkwood's instrument characters to life — kids and parents both love flipping through them together at bedtime.
All three Parkwood stories in one beautiful hardback — Jackson, Eklig, and Santa under one cover. Colorful illustrations, unforgettable characters, and lessons worth keeping. The perfect gift for any young reader ages 3–10.
A brave little guitar snaps a string mid-performance. His quest to find a replacement teaches kids that setbacks are just the start of a bigger adventure.
The Fall Festival is coming — but a spell-casting witch threatens to silence the whole town. Can Parkwood find a way to celebrate together?
A thick fog rolls in on Christmas Eve and Santa gets lost over Parkwood. The town's plan: blast Christmas music through loudspeakers to guide him to Parkwood.
Every spread is packed with colorful characters and a world kids want to live in. Here's a glimpse of what's waiting inside.
Ty Miller is from a small town in southern Illinois, where time moves a little slower, the horizon stretches on forever, and the sun sets behind rows of corn.
When Ty was a kid, his imagination was always active and he began writing short spooky stories, inspired by R.L. Stine. None of those stories made it beyond his notebook, but a seed had been planted that would take a couple more decades to sprout.
At 14, Ty began playing guitar, and it has long remained his main creative outlet. Throughout high school, he faced the normal struggles of being a teenager, and playing guitar always managed to calm his mind. It was during those days that he learned the importance and positive influence that creating music could have on a kid.
Called west by the mountains and the cold Pacific Ocean, he and his wife, Amanda, moved their family to northern California. It was there that Ty combined his experience as a father with his passion for music and began writing children's books. He wanted to share the magic of music with a new generation by bringing instruments to life through entertaining stories and illustrations, while passing on good morals.
"My 3rd grader and kindergartner loved this book. The illustrations were fun and colorful and the storyline is uplifting for kids. Highly recommend!"
"We've read Jackson at least a dozen times. My son picks up his toy guitar every time we finish it. If that's not a win, I don't know what is."
"Santa and the Christmas Fog is now a permanent part of our Christmas Eve tradition. The kids ask for it every single year."
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