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Barbara attended Smith College and Harvard Business School and worked for a Management Consulting firm before marrying and raising four children. As a child she began writing rhyming poetry to bless friends and relatives. Hungry Foxes on Our Hillside reflects her love of nature and God’s provision for the animals he has created. Barbara has been published in a wide variety of magazines. Her first full length book, The Impact of the Media on Children and the Family detailed the harms of sexually explicit and violent media. Her first novel, Field of Daisies offers hope for the future to children of families who suffer from generational Alzheimer’s. An Island Just for Us is a romantic adventure story that takes place in Maine’s beautiful and challenging Penobscot Bay. 

Our Hillside 

This is a story about me! I am a beautiful hillside on an island in Maine where animals come to play. Like Mikayla and Caeden, you can play on me, too. I am covered with soft gray-green reindeer moss. Red rock cranberry and low bush blueberry plants grow on me. You can pick and eat them when they are ripe just like little foxes do. You can find baby spruce trees growing all over me. They come from the spruce cones that drop from tall trees that cover my top. Eagles sit on their high branches. Large red-headed woodpeckers peck holes in them. In the spring robins hop all over me. Mother deer bring their new-born baby fauns to bound gracefully over me. Butterflies land on my bushes. Flocks of crows eat my blueberries when they are ripe. At the end of the summer my blueberry bushes turn bright red. At night raccoons and little skunks scamper over me. The moon and hundreds of stars shine above my full trees. I invite you to visit me and get to know the young red foxes that play and dine on me. When a terrible storm uproots my tall trees, will the foxes be too frightened to return? 

“Remembering the Times, We Spent with Our Grandparents

We always love visits to our grandparents. Those days in our younger years are definitely one of the best childhood experiences we can recall when we grow up. Our grandparents always prepare our favorite food whenever we are around, and they have gifts too!

Truly, we share fond memories with them and we’ll always cherish them in our hearts. It’s always a wholesome experience and such is the story of Mikayla, and Caeden as told in Barbara Hattemer’s new book, “Hungry Foxes on Our Hillside.” The story follows the two siblings and narrates their experiences as they spend time visiting their grandma. She lives on an island in Maine where the nature is such a delight to the eyes and hearts of everyone.

The book captures wholesome memories and unforgettable lessons we learn from our grandparents. It is a heart-warming tale where the siblings also learn about the circle of life and the laws of nature. They were taught these lessons through the lives of a fox family which they become very fond of as they watch their active, playful, smart, and cunning behavior.

Barbara also wrote the book creatively in a rhyming scheme, making it a very fun read especially for children. The illustrations within the pages of the book accentuate the story. The vibrant colors and excellent interpretation of the characters, including the wildlife, will capture the interest of any child. It will also teach valuable lessons that will encourage children to love and appreciate nature and all the beautiful things in it.

Barbara also listed fun facts about foxes in the book. It increases the educational value of the book and makes it a must read for children, especially those who are in the early years of learning.”