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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    October 2015
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Book List in Order: 16 titles



  • This young Scottish Beaver so amazes humans and other beavers that he is enshrined in the Hall of Fame for his human-like abilities & astonishing feats. From tragedy to self discovery to beaver love, young Cleaver McBeaver McBean goes from local cele...



  • A story of a giraffe's soulful change. Small & blue, Ginny is the only one of her kind on an island. She is ridiculed for her appearance and size by others & becomes shy and introverted. After she grows tall, she finds peace & solitude hiding her fac...



  • A song writing Cockatiel falls in love with a melodic Love Bird. After the birth of their 4 musical quadruplets, the children break into the POP world of music. Their parents, like the Jacksons and Osmonds, successfully raise their singing quartet th...



  • The story begins when a crocodile mother mistakes a dragon egg as her own & raises the baby as a croc. Crocky Dial Dooby learns quickly to hide his unusual appendages to remain accepted in the river clan. But when his wings grow out & he breathes fir...



  • A tale of two adolescent animals; an irreverent orphan named Otto Otter & a tiny sweet female hedgehog, named Sunna. Sunna, the sun worshipper, enlists the wise counsel of her godfather, Mister Sun after Otto and Sunna become inseparable playmates. T...



  • A moral tale of a baby girl Koala, who by faith & divine inspiration, awakens the kinetic power of her innocence to help her threatened friends. Though a child, Paula deals with poachers & the destruction of their forest by befriending a bee hive....



  • Premise;The theme of this book is to imagine the author as a troubadour, incarnated as a messenger, who left heaven to revisit the earth in behalf of humanity. As heaven's emissary, he narrates his accounts of daily observations and experiences, in a...



  • The escapade of an unwise orphaned otter and his naive little hedgehog traveling companion is filled with little surprises that confront their journey. As sleepy runaways, free-loading a freight train, they find themselves lost and in trouble, wishin...



  • A charming, fanciful and rhyming fable about a traveling zoo, whose mama elephant, named Nellie, gives birth to a talking baby pachyderm. As the zoo’s main miraculous attraction, baby Ellie overcomes mocking ridicule & cage imprisonment to go o...






  • Briana the Basset Hound Fair is a moralistic tale about life's wonderful discoveries that develop between humans and the animal pet kingdom. How their relative companionship & coexistence, when carefully pondered, not only enhances our humanity profo...



  • Sky is a blue jay whose spirit is laced with the forces of mischief, while sweetened with an intrinsic sense of fellowship and compassion. He is compelled to assist his diminishing number of precious friends, who are kindred animals disappearing myst...



  • The Legend Of Sky is a tale about a blue jay named Sky who becomes upset as his fellow creatures mysteriously disappear. However, Sky suspects he knows why they are gone. Because nature had gifted him with being the color of the blue heavens, he is e...



  • A tale of compassion is exhibited by an unusually small, but sweet wallaby named Josephine. She awakens in a cave to find she's in a pumpkin house instead. Though noticeably small, she is forced to keep up with larger kindred kangaroos. She soon beco...



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    This is a tale about how our childhood dreams can be crucial to developing our personal sense of creativeness. How imaginary friends expand our minds, which is the basis of invention, problem solving and all creative activities.Despite his father's f...



    • / General Fiction

    A Lovely short story of a Cockatiel, named Timber, who is smitten by a Lovebird named Beauty. When he hears the melodic sound of her voice, Timber is inspired to write songs specifically to win her over. Love, as usual, prevails over all obstacles wh...



    • / General Fiction

    Two short tales in one book. Fearless The Cat & Star. Fearless The Cat is an ambitious & curious kitten who lives to experience everything he can. He's an energetic little soul, filled with big dreams. The moral is that when we put our minds to anyth...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dan Hayashi has published 16 books.

Dan Hayashi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Josephine the Wallaby, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Dan Hayashi, The Lighted Island of Ginny Giraffe, was published in October 2015.

No. Dan Hayashi does not write books in series.