About Us

We are Randy and Adalee Hude, a husband and wife team who felt called to start this tiny publishing company, Ave Lamb Books. Both of us are cradle Catholics, although each of us experienced a deepening of faith only as adults. We reside in the Pacific Northwest, a little outside of Portland, OR. We have two young and precious children, both adopted, and love being parents. It is largely due to their influence that we started creating books together - books that we wanted to read to them, and books they would want us to read to them! We are squeezing Ave Lamb Books into the margins of our family life. But this is what God has called us to fill those extra moments with, so we hope that you and your family will be blessed by what we do.

About Randy

Randy is a native Tennessean who has had a few different “vocations" over the decades. He fell in love with the Northwest (and soon thereafter, Adalee) after taking a job opportunity here many years ago. Currently, he works for a Catholic-led engineering and tool manufacturing company. Randy relishes the written word and wholeheartedly believes in the importance of not only reading but also of reading aloud. Often you'll find him with the kids on either side going through book after book.

About Adalee

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: Brightly Hude Studio

Our Mission

We are called to serve the Lord our God through publishing captivating Catholic books that are fully faithful to Jesus Christ, His Church, and the Magisterium, for your family and ours. Our goal is that these works may inspire everyone to better know, love and serve God.