Pack your imagination and get ready for a sunny Halloween adventure on the beautiful California coast!

Join Hapkinful, Hapki, Gracious, Kinder, and their cheerful little blue bird, Wiggle, as their magical yellow suitcase carries them from Happyville to California, USA.

When they arrive, the friends discover a colorful beachside Halloween festival beside the sparkling Pacific Ocean. Palm trees sway overhead while pumpkins, glowing lanterns, fall decorations, music, costumes, and games fill the beach with excitement.

Halloween in California feels very different from Happyville!

The children explore the festival, meet friendly families, and learn about the amazing animals that live in and around the Pacific Ocean.

But when the wind blows litter across the sand, the friends realize some of it could reach the ocean and harm wildlife.

They immediately decide to help.

Hapkinful, Hapki, Gracious, and Kinder join local children and volunteers to clean the beach, carefully collecting wrappers, bottles, and other litter.

Working together, they quickly make the beach cleaner and safer.

The children discover an important lesson: kindness isn't only something we show to people. We can also show kindness by caring for animals, beaches, oceans, and the beautiful planet we all share.

With Wiggle fluttering happily alongside them, the friends return to the festival and enjoy music, Halloween games, colorful costumes, and a cheerful seaside celebration.

As evening arrives, the California sky turns beautiful shades of orange, pink, and purple. The friends pause beside the Pacific Ocean to watch the sunset and feel grateful for the wonderful natural world around them.

Their California Halloween adventure becomes a celebration of friendship, community, kindness, gratitude, and caring for nature.

And the adventure doesn't end when the story is finished!

This book includes over 20 fun activity pages designed especially for young children. The activities encourage creativity, imagination, observation, learning, kindness, and gratitude while giving children even more ways to enjoy their Hapkinful Halloween adventure.

After completing the story and activities, children can proudly celebrate their achievement with their very own Certificate of Completion.

Created especially for children ages 5–9, this colorful Halloween adventure combines travel, ocean discovery, seasonal fun, friendship, and gentle lessons about protecting our natural world.

• A magical Halloween adventure in California

• A colorful beachside Halloween festival

• The beautiful Pacific Ocean and California coast

• Costumes, pumpkins, lanterns, music, and games

• A community beach cleanup

• Gentle lessons about protecting beaches and oceans

• Encouragement to care for animals and wildlife

• A beautiful California sunset

• Hapkinful's magical yellow suitcase

• Adventures with Wiggle, the lovable little blue bird

• Messages of happiness, kindness, and gratitude

• Over 20 fun activity pages

• A special Certificate of Completion

• Suitable for children ages 5–9

A wonderful choice for Halloween gifts, fall reading, bedtime stories, family story time, classrooms, homeschool activities, and children who love beaches, oceans, animals, travel, and adventure.

Discover that every small act of kindness can help make our beautiful world a little brighter and cleaner.

Live Happy. Be Kind. Stay Grateful. Be Hapkinful!

With love and gratitude,
Nanna Hapkinful