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!














For the ONE MISSISSIPPI teacher guide and book page, click   here!

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*Nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters  Youth Literature Award!*


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.