Welcome to
Ave Lamb Books
Captivating Catholic Books for Your Family
We are a small Catholic Publishing house, run by Randy & Adalee Hude,
parishioners in the Archdiocese of Portland, OR.
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To learn more about us, please scroll down.
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Yes- we wholesale our books!
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Yes- we offer discounts on bulk orders for Religious Orders, Ministries and Parishes!
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Please write to us at contact@brightlyhude(dot)com for more info.
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Sorry- we can't accept submissions for publication at this time. Perhaps if God allows us to grow!
But yes, we will accept prayers and prayer requests!
Our Team
Go team Hude!
Author & Editor in Chief
Randy Hude
Randy is a native Tennessean who has had a few different “vocations” you might say over the decades. After giving up on a pursuit to become a professor of English literature post-M.A., Randy went back to school on a pre-med curriculum and became a pharmacist. A job opportunity brought him to the Pacific Northwest many years ago. Currently, he works for a small engineering and tool design company. Randy always relishes reading to our son and opined to Adalee that more fun to read but still edifying Catholic books ought be made. Suggestion made, new venture started.
Illustrator & Author
Adalee HUDE
Adalee Hude is a happy wife, mother, illustrator and author of Catholic children's books. Fueled largely by prayer and coffee, she has done artwork for Catholic magazines, stickers, and prayer journals as well. Her own books include Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus: An Introductory Latin Missal for Children, and Light of Heaven: A Children’s Book of Saints. Adalee also has a Substack newsletter called A Brightly Hude Life. She runs Brightly Hude Studio when she's not running around with kids. Baking is her love language!
Find More of her work at: https://brightlyhude.com
Assistant Editors
The Kids
Our 6-year-old book lover is happily our assistant/critic for our book projects. Our 2-year-old is in training. We also have gathered quite a team of family members, friends and associates as beta readers!