About Michael Jr.
Michael Jr. is a children's author whose Little Mike series has become a quiet staple for early readers aged 4-8. The series follows the adventures of a curious, kind, and resourceful protagonist who encounters the kinds of challenges that feel enormous to a child but are surmountable with imagination and courage — building a robot, learning to fly, having fun at the beach. Each book is short enough to read in a single bedtime sitting but textured enough to reward the repeated reading that young children naturally gravitate toward. The writing has a quality rare in children's fiction: it respects the reader's intelligence without patronizing them. Michael Jr.'s work sits comfortably alongside the best of early literacy fiction — books that make children feel that reading is worth the effort because the stories inside are worth the wait. Find the full series at littlemikebooks.com or follow @LittleMikeReads on social media.