Landing in a New Pond

A tender sibling story about how we make unlikely friendships as seasons shift and hearts grow.

A sweet picture book for ages 3 to 7 where friendships with ducks helps a boy face change and appreciate his growing sibling bond.

Nothing feels the same after a young boy moves to a new place. He misses his friends, but he finds new friendship with 41 ducks. They don’t act like his friends, but they have their own quirks as they waddle and quack their way into his heart as he loves and nurtures them.

Mom warns that the ducks will fly south for the winter, and the boy hopes they might want to stay. But you can't fight nature. His bird friends fly away, and he’s all alone again. Or is he?

A heartwarming picture book about moving and the unlikely friendships found only through change in their lives.

"A lovely story! Gentle, delicate, with a calm energy and carefully handled emotional moments."—Jessixa Bagley, award-winning creator of Boats for Papa and Laundry Day

Marisa Ramel is author of the award-winning memoir for adults, The Goodbye Diaries.The mother-daughter memoir was praised as “beautiful, wise, tender and true” by Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild, and was named one of the “17 Books Every Girl Should Read Before She’s 17” by Seventeen magazine. Marisa has written for Time, Good Morning America, Glamour, PopSugar, and more. Marisa, her husband, and their two children moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Boulder, CO, where they’ve befriended numerous ducks and where Marisa is now a librarian. This is her first picture book.

Jennifer Doehring is the author and illustrator of The Wanderer’s Journal series, a group of illustrated guided hiking journals for adults, and an illustrator of children's picture books. She received her fine-art degree from the University of California, Irvine, and owns art studio Palette Passions, where she teaches painting and drawing to intermediate and advanced students. In her spare time, Jennifer loves to backcountry camp and gathers most of her creative inspiration from nature. She lives in Southern California with her husband and their English bulldog, Snickers. www.jenniferdoehringbooks.com