Amy Houts

Amy is the author of 100+ books for children. She writes for both faith-based and general market publishers. Amy’s faith-based books include bath books, Noah's Ark and The Creation, God's Earth is Something to Fight For (Sunbeam/Bushel & Peck Books), Christian Q&A Book for Kids (Rockridge Press), and God’s Protection Covers Me (Beaming Books). Amy’s educational books include 60 retold tales for the series, Compass Children’s Classics, 2020. Her 10 nonfiction science early readers for Highlights were also released in 2020.

Amy won first place in the Best Children's Picture Book, category from The Missouri Writers' Guild. Sponsored by The Missouri Association of School Librarians in 2024. She won two awards in 2020 for her picture book, God's

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