2025 EVENTS
January 25th:Storytelling Festival at the Mississippi Children's Museum. Meridian, Mississippi.
March 29th: Mississippi Baby and Family Expo. Jackson, Mississippi.
April 4th: Concrete Studio Storytelling Festival at Duvall Decker Architects. Fondren. Jackson, Mississippi.
April TBA: Community reads. Starkville, Mississippi.
2024 EVENTS
January 12th-13th: Storytelling Festival at the Mississippi Children's Museum. Jackson, Mississippi.
January 30th: School visit to Magnolia Heights School in Senatobia, Mississippi, and South Panola in Batesville, Mississippi.
February 9th: Young Authors' Celebration at William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
March 1st: Ann Smith Elementary School in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Turn the Page Event. Mississippi Book Festival.
March 6th: Madison Crossing Elementary School in Madison, Mississippi.
April 9th: Fay B. Kaigler Pre-Conference author panel in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
April 10th-12th: Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
April 24th: First Presbyterian Day School "Famous Mississippians" Celebration in Jackson, Mississippi.
May 7th: Bologna Performing Arts Center in Cleveland, Mississippi.
May 21st:Smithsonian Institute Event in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
August 24th: Possumtown Book Fest in Columbus, Mississippi.
September 14th: Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson, Mississippi.
September 17th: Pontotoc County School District in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
October 12th: MsECA 71st Imagine Conference for Early Childhood Education in Jackson, Mississippi.
December 12th: Community Reads Event in Starkville, Mississippi.
December 17th: School Library Symposium at University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.
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*Nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Youth Literature Award!*
For the ONE MISSISSIPPI teacher guide and book page, click here!
ONE MISSISSIPPI...A children's book based on the newly adopted state song of Mississippi by Steve Azar!
Hi! I'm Sarah Frances Hardy,
an author and illustrator of children's books.
I live in Oxford, Mississippi, where I'm surrounded by a wonderful community of writers and readers.
For more info about me, click here!