Greensboro author pens children’s book for creative indoor play

Greensboro author Avery Groll is giving Guilford County parents a new option for the days when children are stuck inside and the house starts to feel too small. Her children’s book, The Adventures of Bubby and Bubs: A Day of Creative Indoor Play, was featured on FOX8 WGHP’s Mommy Matters segment on May 19, 2026, putting a hometown family story in front of Triad viewers.

Outskirts Press published the book on Sept. 25, 2025 and describes it as a 26-page juvenile fiction title available in 8.5-by-8.5 color paperback and casebound formats. The publisher says Groll is a first-time author from North Carolina, a wife and the mother of two boys who inspired the story. The book follows brothers Bubby and Bubs as they use imagination to stay entertained indoors when weather keeps them from playing outside.

That premise has a clear appeal for local families looking for low-cost ways to fill time without reaching for a screen. Retail listings frame the book as a nudge toward imaginative, screen-free indoor play and sibling connection, two things many parents are trying to balance after school, on rainy weekends or during long stretches when outdoor play is not practical. The story’s focus is simple, but that is part of its appeal: it turns everyday home life into something children can act out, rerun and build on with their own ideas.

Groll has also been bringing the book directly into the community. An author-led story time was listed at Lancaster Preschool in Greensboro on Nov. 19, 2025, showing that the book is finding an audience through family venues as well as retail shelves. For Greensboro, that matters because it adds another small but visible piece to the city’s creative economy, one rooted in ordinary parenting rather than a large commercial launch.

In a media landscape often dominated by budget fights, crime reports and development headlines, Groll’s book offers a different kind of local story: a Greensboro parent writing for Greensboro families. The result is a practical children’s title that speaks to a familiar problem and gives caregivers one more tool for keeping indoor time calm, creative and connected.