Toby Speed

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Potatoes go flying at the County Fair!

Cows have a holiday on the moon.

My Books

Whodunnit


Death Over Easy
Featuring fearless (not!) Emma Trace, Long Island-born freelance editor, and her sidekick, LaRue. Work in progress

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Picture books


Brave Potatoes
The prize potatoes have been sitting in the Bud and Bean Arena all day, and now they want to go on the rides. Little do they know that an evil chef is right behind them. He wants potatoes for his soup!

Two Cool Cows
Millie and Maude take off on an adventure wearing the Huckabuck kids' new black button-back boots.

Water Voices
Poems in the form of riddles fill this small book that has watercolors by Julie Downing. Try and guess the riddles before you turn the page.

Whoosh! Went the Wish
If only Henry had a cat. He wishes and wishes, but no cat comes. Then a fairy asks him to wish, and he does -- with disastrous results!

Hattie Baked a Wedding Cake
Hattie mixes the cake batter so hard that lots of strange things get mixed in, such as the wind in the wind chimes, two socks and a kiss. How will Hattie get them out?

One Leaf Fell
A leaf's year-long adventures after it falls off a tree. Beautiful paintings by Minerva McIntyre.

Crawly Bug and the Firehouse Pie
A pie is stolen crumb by crumb.

My children's books, unfortunately, are out of print and unavailable from book stores, but you can find them in your local library. Select titles are also available directly from me, autographed of course. Inquire by email as to availability and price.


Selected Works

Mystery Novel
Death Over Easy
An Emma Trace mystery
Work in progress
Picture Books
Brave Potatoes
Super spuds do battle with Chef Hackemup
Two Cool Cows
Why the cow really jumped over the moon
Water Voices
Small puzzle poems about sprinkler spray, mud puddles and other forms of water
Whoosh! Went the Wish
A wish gets stuck in bushes, briers and brambles
Hattie Baked a Wedding Cake
Strange ingredients go into a cake
One Leaf Fell
A story of a leaf and its travels

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