How Gims Found His Family is here and we're celebrating the biggest birthday of the year How Gims Found His Family April 19, 2026. Gims' third birthday. And the day How Gims Found His Family, the first book in the Gims & Friends series, officially arrives in the world. We have been working toward this day for a long time. And now that it's here, we want to celebrate with the people who made it possible: the parents, the educators, the grandparents, the aunts and uncles, and e

On finding your people, friendship across differences, and what family really means Gims and Luna cuddling Benny and Gims at the playground Here is something children understand instinctively that adults sometimes forget: you can belong somewhere before you feel like you belong there. It just takes a little time. And usually, a few good friends. How Gims Found His Family is a picture book about a wiggly English Bulldog named Gims, but underneath the snacks and the silliness,

Some of the best stories begin not at a desk, but on a couch with a snoring bulldog draped across your lap and absolutely no intention of writing a book. That's more or less how How Gims Found His Family came to be. Gims, short for Gimli, is an English Bulldog who belongs to my oldest son. From the moment he arrived, he had a personality too big for one household. He is silly. He is dramatic. He is deeply, unshakably convinced that every snack in the room belongs to him. And