Children's books by Steve Dressing
Stories that let kids be themselves.
Four books for readers 4 to 14: a picture book about a mockingbird who can't fly yet, two baseball fantasy novels, and a space adventure starring a young scientist.
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Every book is filed by the age it's written for, the way a school library would do it.
Picture book · Ages 4–7
Eleanor can't fly yet.
So she learns to copy the sounds of every animal around her. The other birds think she's strange. Then a flock of crows comes for the neighborhood, and Eleanor's odd little skill is what saves it.
The Down Home books · Ages 8–12
There's a world under the field.
The Waterfalls youth league has stopped having fun. In Game Keepers, George Starr kicks the ground and the team finds Down Home, where magical creatures help them love the game again. In Down Home, that world needs saving.
Novel · Ages 10–14
Colleen has a planet to save.
Colleen Freeman is a young genius training for a mission to planets that might hold intelligent life. Then something enormous starts heading toward Earth, and she and her companion robots have to save it first.
Why Number 6
His father called him Number Six Son.
Steve Dressing was the ninth of nine kids and the sixth boy. He wore number 6 in Little League by coincidence, played through college, and later coached Little League himself.
When the big publishers passed on his first book, he started a press of his own and named it after the nickname.
- 9Kids in the family. Steve was the ninth.
- 6His number, on the field and among the boys.
- 4Books so far, for ages 4 to 14.
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Game Keepers
A Complicated Journey
For the grown-ups
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Every book page lists the reading age, the format and where the book falls in a series, so you can pick without guessing.
- Ages 4–7Eleanor the Mockingbird, a picture book
- Ages 8–12Game Keepers, then Down Home, two baseball fantasy novels
- Ages 10–14A Complicated Journey, a space adventure