The Wonder Log series

The books

Picture books and fact books for curious kids, written by Juliet Novak.

Cover of Nova Knight, Rocketeer, showing a girl beside a homemade rocket in a backyard

Picture book · Ages 4–8

Nova Knight, Rocketeer

A Growth Mindset Story about Failing, Fixing, and Flying — A STEM Picture Book for Kids Ages 4–8. Nova salvages junk, including a shed door, to build a rocket she calls the Sky Skimmer 2. It fails. She fixes it. It fails again. She writes down why, and tries again.

  • Paperback — $12.99
  • Kindle — $4.99

Paperback on Amazon

Kindle on Amazon

Cover of Snowflakes and Sugar Plums, showing a young dancer leaping in a white snowflake tutu

Picture book · Ages 4–8

Snowflakes and Sugar Plums

A Nutcracker Christmas Story for Kids. One girl loves the story of Clara and her wooden nutcracker and asks a big question: could she be in The Nutcracker? The first answer is “not yet.” So she works hard in class all year and tries again, all the way to the snow scene.

  • Paperback — $12.99
  • Kindle — $4.99

Paperback on Amazon

Kindle on Amazon

Free Nutcracker printables from this book →

Cover of The Cutest Babies on Earth, a fact book about baby animals

Fact book · Ages 4–9

The Cutest Babies on Earth

Fun Facts About Baby Animals for Kids Ages 4–9.

  • Paperback — $12.99
  • Kindle — $3.99

Paperback on Amazon

Kindle on Amazon

Draft, not-yet-final cover for an upcoming fun-facts book about ballet
Draft cover · not final

Fact book · Coming

Coming: a fun-facts book about ballet

Not yet published — no release date yet. This book will teach real ballet French terms alongside the facts. Working title is still a placeholder, so no title is final.