Jane Bexley Books in Order

If you want to start at the beginning: Freddie The Farting Snowman → Harvey The Heart Had Too Many Farts → Larry The Farting Leprechaun → Gary The Goose And His Gas On The Loose
If you want friendship-first stories: Harvey The Heart Had Too Many Farts → Gary The Goose And His Gas On The Loose
If you want family read-alouds: Dad And Me Setting Farts Free → Mom Fart Mystery
If you want seasonal picks: Freddie The Farting Snowman → Monster Farts → Turkey Toots

Jane Bexley writes the kind of picture books that know exactly what makes kids snort-laugh. She is a children's author and illustrator whose stories lean hard into rhyme, outrageous sound effects, and the sort of potty humor young readers adore. They are built to be read aloud, repeated, and quoted back from the back seat.

Publicly, Bexley keeps most of the personal backstory to herself. What she does share is enough to sketch the shape of her work: she describes herself as a wife, a mother of four, and an author-illustrator with a soft spot for wordplay. That mix shows up all over her books, which are made for family read-alouds and quick giggles.

She also illustrates her own stories.

Bexley's publishing run took off in late 2020 with Freddie The Farting Snowman, a holiday picture book that introduces one of her favorite formats, a breezy rhyme paired with a running catalog of silly fart names. Between then and early 2022, she moved quickly, adding Harvey The Heart Had Too Many Farts, Larry The Farting Leprechaun, Gary The Goose And His Gas On The Loose, and more.

That pace matters because it shows how clearly she found her lane. Underneath the jokes, her books usually circle back to familiar kid worries: wanting friends, wanting to fit in, wanting parents to laugh with you instead of at you. Harvey The Heart Had Too Many Farts turns a goofy premise into a story about being loved as you are. Gary The Goose And His Gas On The Loose plays with embarrassment and friendship. Dad And Me Setting Farts Free and Mom Fart Mystery shift the focus toward family life and the small mysteries and rituals that make home feel funny and safe.

She knows that kids will follow a rhyme almost anywhere.

Seasonal hooks are another big part of her style. Christmas, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Bexley keeps finding excuses to match a holiday setup with a joke-forward read-aloud. Even titles outside the earliest run, like Princesses Don't Fart (They Fluff) and Santa's Fart Factory, show the same instinct for taking a familiar kid fantasy and tipping it sideways with a goofy punch line.

Her books have traveled further than you might expect from slim, independently published picture books. Several titles were pulled into the wider national conversation about library book challenges in Texas, which put names like Freddie The Farting Snowman and Larry The Farting Leprechaun in front of a much bigger audience. That attention says less about shock value than it does about how squarely she writes for young readers: simple language, bright setups, and jokes children understand at once.

By 2025, she also described herself as a PBParty finalist and part of children's writing communities such as SCBWI. In personal writing, she has also referred to herself as probably ADHD, which makes the fast, zigzag energy of her books feel even more on brand.

Whether she is writing about a snowman, a goose, a turkey, or a small bear trying to copy a parent, the real engine is the same: playful repetition, rhyme, and the relief of turning something awkward into something shared. She writes for the laugh first, then sneaks in warmth.