Karel Hayes

• Aug-2007
• / General Fiction
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This charming and highly original story reveals what happens at a vacation cottage once the summer visitors have left for the winter. With fewer than two dozen words, the story is told primarily in pictures. Children and adults will revel in the acti...

• Feb-2009
• / Action Adventure
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When Tim carves his first lobster buoy, its rough surface suggests a face. So he paints eyes on it, making it a buoy like no other. Tim names the buoy Lucky and, sure enough, it lives up to its name. Lucky's lobster trap is always filled, and the buo...

• Aug-2010
• / General Fiction
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This is the charming and original tale of author Harriet Harrington, who lives alone in a small house in the woods, and prefers it that way. Her persistent friend Monique, however, believes Harriet needs a friend. Monique breeds puppies and she will ...

• Jul-2011
• / General Fiction
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This follow-up to the successful The Winter Visitors, traces the interactions between a family of bears and a human family during their summer stay at a lake cottage. Told primarily through illustration, with only a few dozen words in the book, child...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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It’s Christmas at the cottage by the lake and the bears are busy preparing to celebrate. The human owners of the cottage, however, are in the city feeling glum. Until the idea comes to them to spend the holidays at their cottage. What follows is a ...

• Oct-2015
• / General Fiction
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In this fourth and final book in Karel Hayes's acclaimed Visitors series, the beloved family of bears gets in another round of adventures as they experience the full enjoyment of a New England autumn. First up the country fair--the bears ...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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• Mar-2020
• / General Fiction
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The cute cubs of Karel Hayes’s acclaimed Visitors series now have their very own board book series for the youngest human book lovers. Youngsters are introduced to the animals of the forest...

• Jul-2020
• / General Fiction
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Little Bear has balloons to share with all his friends of the forest, but something unexpected happens when his littlest friend chipmunk takes one extra and begins to rise into the air. Can Little Bear save him or will he need some help?A charm...

• May-2022
• / General Fiction
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Alex, a twelve year old boy, who does not like change, finds himself unwillingly pulled along by events he can’t control. The story begins with the seemingly harmless decision of his parents to change their vacation plans. Instead of going to t...

• May-2022
• / General Fiction
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Alex, a twelve year old boy, who does not like change, finds himself unwillingly pulled along by events he can’t control. The story begins with the seemingly harmless decision of his parents to change their vacation plans. Instead of going to the b...

• Jul-2023
• / Mystery
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The exhilarating second book in acclaimed children's author Karel Hayes' Lake Kanakonda trilogy. Spring has come again to Lake Kanakondah, but it is not a peaceful spring. A menacing presence has invaded the deep dark waters of the bottomless lake. C...

• Jun-2024
• / Mystery
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In this exciting conclusion to Karel Hayes' Lake Kanakonda trilogy, the mysterious Mr. Blackendoff appears to tell Alex the story of the bell box, which begins in far off Peru. Soon Alex realizes he must take control to finally unravel the ancien...