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  • Bibliography:
    49 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

TJ

TJ and the Cats (Sep-2002)
TJ and the Haunted House (Jan-2003)
TJ and the Rockets (Apr-2004)
TJ and the Sports Fanatic (Mar-2006)
TJ and the Quiz Kids (Sep-2007)

Multi-Author Series List

Annikins

15 - And You Can Be the Cat (Mar-1992)
15 - Katie's Babbling Brother (Sep-1996)
15 - Norman's Snowball (Sep-1996)

Book List in Order: 49 titles



  • On a bright morning in May the lady at the corner grocery store turned Derek Henshaw into a frog. After witnessing this trick, Sarah decides that she has found the perfect subject for her science project. Of course she will have to get Anastasia ...



  • K-Gr 2 Leanna sets out to capture a genie whom she believes is taking various things from around the house. In her attempts, she gets her foot caught in the sofa and discovers that the missing items are in between the sofa's cushions. Leanna goes fro...





  • Ten-and-a-half-year-old Casey Webber is determined to be the greatest magician ever. Then he discovers the old jacket he used to dress up in as a little kid. He slips it on... and disappears! Suddenly his magic career is off and running!

    ...



  • Nicholas finds a very small chimpanzee at the library, and when the head librarian tells him it is a lost-story chimpanzee, the three of them travel from book to book, trying to find the story to which the little ape belongs...





  • Leanna is used to being center stage at playtime, so younger brother Norman always gets the boring roles. When Norman becomes tired of being the cat, he goes off to play on his own. Before the day is out, brother and sister have learned to play t...



  • Claire starts researching her town's history, but with the help of a bossy 100-year-old cat named Cortez she finds out much more than she expected.

    "…a style that combines light-hearted humour with some serious but digestible, statement...



  • Lonely and a little insecure, 12-year-old Allison steps through a magical painting and into the Rocky Mountains of 1898. While trying to solve the mystery of her time travel, she also begins to explore her emerging sense of identity.

    ...






  • Tess loves the prairie. But her parents do not; coming from an easier life, far, far away, they resent the bitter cold winter and the poverty that means burning cow dung for fuel.

    Tess and her brother Charlie go out to collect cow patties...



  • About the Annikin Series:

    Annikins are mini books made especially for children -- small enough to fit into tiny hands and pockets. Each book measures 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and contains full color pages. Individual titles available in quantities...



  • About the Annikin Series:

    Annikins are mini books made especially for children -- small enough to fit into tiny hands and pockets. Each book measures 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" and contains full color pages. Individual titles available in quantities...





  • Robyn is the world's greatest singer. Well, not yet maybe, but one day she intends to be. She takes piano lessons and practices her scales, pays attention in music class and watches what the divas are wearing on TV. The only problem is that Robyn has...



  • Fred can't believe the Prince is actually standing in his bedroom. Are his mom's stories becoming real? He tries to send the Prince back home to his magical kingdom of Tarn, but in the meantime the Prince barks orders at everyone, including Fred'...



  • "ìWanted: Older Brother. Good at Math. Wicked on skateboard. Must share TV time.î Robyn is so sick of being an only child, she places a want ad in the local newspaper. But the only person who replies is her neighbour Ari, and he just wants to avoid...



  • Yancy and Bear are back! This lovable twosome is as engaging, and just as busy, as in Yancy & Bear. Bear decides it's his birthday again, and therefore time to change places (birthdays work differently for Bear than they do for Yancy.) However, t...



  • Hazel Hutchins, the popular, award-winning author, has written a story about one man and one duck -- not a nature-conquering scenario, but a tale of human compassion and caring for the creatures with whom we share the earth. Hazel tells the story...



  • Bears are big, and scary, and dangerous. Robyn knows if she sees one she'll have a great story to tell for years to come. So when she arrives to spend the summer at her cousin's lodge at Thunder Mountain, she doesn't wait for the bears to come to her...






  • What would you do with three wishes? When eleven-year-old Jason Reid is offered three wishes from an Elster of the Third Order called Quicksilver, he starts off greedy and frivolous, and his third wish is always for three more. Soon Jason realize...



  • A gentle story about a brave little boy and his goat who, after many wrong turns, meet a baby giant in need of their help. In order to fully capture the size of the giants, Two So Small features an extra-large fold-out picture at the story's end....



  • As a strong summer storm approaches, Jonathan watches a stray cat looking for something in the bushes, but as the clouds darken, Jonathan wonders if the animal will be okay all by itself when the rain starts pouring from the sky....



  • There's a cat in Robyn's bedroom: a small, longhaired grey kitten, with a white smudge over its eye and a bib under its neck. She wants to keep it, so she hides it from her mom. But in their small apartment a kitten can't stay hidden for long. Their ...



  • Robyn gets to choose where her class will go on their next field trip. Inspired by the local newspaper's drawing contest she chooses the art gallery-and everyone, even her best friend Marie, expects to have a boring time. The art gallery turns out to...



  • Another charming rhyming picture book from the celebrated team of Hazel Hutchins and Ruth Ohi.

    Jeremy tries to hide among the many toy monsters in his bedroom. But when his father recognizes him, they begin a lovingly simple and repetitio...



  • TJ

    TJ may not like cats, but that doesn't stop a taxi from showing up at his door bearing his grandmother's four felines. Killer, Cleo, Kink and Maximillian the Emperor -- Max for short -- invade TJ's life and replace dinosaurs as the topic for his scho...



  • TJ

    TJ does not believe in ghosts, so when he agrees to create a haunted house in his own home as a fundraiser, he does not anticipate problems......at least not until it turns out that a ghost may inhabit the spare room in his century-old house. The gho...



  • Robyn is sure she is in big trouble with the school librarian. She published a school newspaper with a spelling mistake in the headline -- "Mr Lee Smells Foul."In class they talk about democracy and freedom of the press, but now the principal is te...



  • It's imagination to the rescue when Josie tumbles inside her own chalk drawing.

    When Josie jumps into her sidewalk drawing to pick beautiful flowers, her sister Morgan races to get help. It's a good thing too, because Josie has a great ma...






  • Robyn's friend Marie knows how to skate and would like to help Robyn be more confident on the ice. At the rink near her home Robyn finds that she can take group lessons and participate in the Carnival on Ice. She is much older and taller than all the...



  • TJ

    TJ overcame his fear of cats in TJ and the Cats and his fear of ghosts in TJ and the Haunted House. Now, he's not so keen on facing his fear of failure. His best friend Seymour is determined to come up with the latest greatest invention and TJ's gran...



  • A tiny boat's giant journey.

    When a young boy launches a tiny paper boat downstream, he wonders about the adventures it will have on its voyage. The little vessel sails past goggling frogs and hovering insects, houses and stores along the...



  • Can magic and science live happily ever after?

    When a local grocer zaps a shoplifter into a frog, Sarah and Ben know that something's afoot. After all, nothing they've learned in science class explains how this lady can turn troublemakers...



  • When Robyn starts planning her birthday party, her mother makes just one rule: everyone from Robyn's class has to be invited. This isn't what Robyn has in mind, mostly because of the Three Gs, who can make a lot of trouble when they are all together....



  • TJ

    TJ Barnes is back, playing with his crazy cats, T-Rex and Alaska, helping out in his parents' hardware store and goofing around with his best friend, Seymour.When Seymour announces that he has signed them both up for a football team, TJ fears the wor...



  • "A little princess makes the greatest of gifts from the simplest of lists."

    When a neighboring kingdom announces the birth of a royal baby, the Queen of Iddison is thrilled. "We shall bring the child splendid gifts," she declares, and then ma...



  • TJ

    When master fact-gatherers TJ and Seymour are asked to join the school Quiz Kids team, TJ thinks Seymour should take the stage at the upcoming contest against the high-pressure Fairview School team.TJ is already more than occupied rescuing his cats a...



  • Matt is miserable. The subdivision where he now lives is surrounded by nothing but muddy fields of rocks and sticks. But when Matt ventures out, his imagination kicks in. He draws a muddy, winding line and names it Snake River. A pile of rocks become...



  • Robyn feels The Raft, the class play, is unfair because it casts only three roles to the boys known as the 3 G's. Robyn starts her own play, The Monster that Ate the World, and learns how difficult it is to organize everything by herself. With the he...






  • A child's-eye view of keeping it all together.

    Acclaimed children's writer Hazel Hutchins explores the concept of what-goes-with-what in her new picture book for preschoolers -- whether it's buttons that keep your shirt together, or shoelac...



  • A cat can get tangled up in all kinds of fun and mischief between wake-up time and nap time. Follow along with the playful text as Cat laps up milk, messes up the house, gets up to no good, stands up to a visiting dog, and finally curls up for a nap ...



  • Uh-oh! Look out, house! This little dog is very busy cheerfully digging up and chewing up everything in sight. It’s a sad little dog who’s locked up in the pen while the house and garden are tidied up. But all is not lost, as he’s cautiously we...



  • Robyn befriends her unpopular classmate Shelly, even though they have very different interests -- Shelly likes dolls But when Shelly's dad wins tickets to the big hockey game, Shelly suddenly becomes the most popular girl in school. What will their ...



  • Antics in the attic with little cat.

    When its owner goes up to the attic, this curious little cat follows right behind. There, it has to maneuver itself in, up, and around the jumble of stored items. Too crowded among the boxes, cat takes...



  • Over hill and dale with little dog.

    Little dog is not about to stay behind when its owner goes off for a walk in the country. But it's quite a job for little dog to keep up as it takes a big jump to get across a divide that's too wide; a ...



  • Hurray for snakes!

    Rufus the farmyard dog first notices the strangely shaped snakes on the ground outside his house. The word they form with their bodies, DOG, looks oddly familiar. As Rufus goes about his patrol, the snakes follow behind...



  • The summer is off to a lousy start when Levi's bike is stolen from outside the corner store. He feels even worse because he didn't lock it. But when his best friend Riley's locked bike is stolen the very next day, the boys are determined to get both ...



  • Art is for everyone -- even a bored little girl.Going to the Art Museum with her mom is no fun at all for Anna. Everything is old and boring and there are so many rules: Don’t Touch! Do Not Enter! Quiet! A vigilant guard keeps a close eye on the en...



  • A vividly imagined story about the importance of telling the truth, even if it means losing something you love.When Jesse finds a toy horse and makes it his very own, his imagination runs wild. This horse is the fastest horse in the whole world, so J...





Award-Winning Books by Hazel Hutchins

Up Cat
2012 NAPPA Gold Award -- Preschoolers & Up
Up Dog
2012 NAPPA Gold Award -- Preschoolers & Up


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hazel Hutchins has published 49 books.

Hazel Hutchins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Truth About Wind, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Hazel Hutchins, Anastasia Morningstar and the Crystal Butterfly, was published in June 1983.

Yes. Hazel Hutchins has 1 series.