First Books For Kids

August 22, 2021 By Jill Kuczmarski

Way back in May of 2007, the year I released my second Happy The Hodag book, A Monster Misunderstanding, I donated 2 cases of books to the local chapter of First Books For Kids.

I love giving back to my community. Providing free books to local kids so that they can participate in the hodag legend was one of the main reasons I created Happy in the first place.

These are snaps from a book reading I did at the Chamber of Commerce for the Rhinelander First Books for Kids.

The Reading

The Signing

The Interview, local television station WJFW stopped by for a chat.

On that donation note, anyone formerly associated with the Rhinelander chapter of First Book For Kids who knows where the loads of extra books I donated are at, please let me know, I would love to get those back in the schools as the donation they were intended to be!

XO,

Jill

Jill Kuczmarski

Jill is a Designer, Illustrator and Writer living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. She is also the creator of Happy the Hodag and Buddy the Bulldog, est. 2006.

After spending the past two decades working in the big cities of the midwest and coming home to the Northwoods on the weekends — Jill finally moved home full time. A Creative Director by day, Jill works virtually with an amazing team of people working remotely across the USA while her weekends and vacations are spent with her husband Jeff and daughter Juniper exploring the near, traveling the far and capturing the in-between with photography and sketches. Jill also create stories and characters for picture books and then subsequently apply those characters and pieces of that artwork to fabrics, paper, and products — usually under the Happy the Hodag brand.

First Books For Kids

Jill Kuczmarski

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