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Hannah Barnaby

Hannah Barnaby is a former children's book editor and indie bookseller, and was the first-ever Children's Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library. Her debut young adult novel, Wonder Show, was a William C. Morris Award finalist, and her second novel, Some of the Parts, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly. Hannah makes her double picture book debut in 2017 with Bad Guy, illustrated by Mike Yamada, and Garcia and Colette Go Exploring, illustrated by Andrew Joyner. Hannah lives in Charlottesville, VA with her family.

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Mallika Chopra

MALLIKA CHOPRA is the successful author of two previous gift books for parents, 100 Promises to My Baby and 100 Questions from My Child. She is a busy mom of two, a successful entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Intent.com and Intentblog, a successful social media site and its sister blog. Chopra grew up in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and graduated from Concord Academy, Brown University, and the Kellogg School of Management.

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John Canty

John Canty is an artist, designer, and writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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Eileen Christelow

Eileen Christelow is an acclaimed American author and illustrator of children’s books, best known for her beloved Five Little Monkeys series. Beginning with Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, a playful retelling of the classic nursery rhyme, the series has captivated generations of young readers with its humor and rhythmic storytelling. Over the course of her career, Christelow has published more than 30 books, encompassing both fiction and nonfiction, and many inspired by her surroundings in Vermont, her family life, and even her dog, Emma.
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1943, Christelow spent her formative years in Connecticut and briefly in Japan, where she attended the American School in Tokyo. She studied architecture at the Universit

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Anna Llenas

Anna Llenas es licenciada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y graduada en Diseño Gráfico por la Escuela Llotja. También tiene formación en Psicología Analítica y un postgrado en Arteterapia. Pasó los primeros años trabajando como diseñadora y directora de arte en las agencias Bassat Ogilvy & Mather y Publicis Casadevall & Pedreño. Pero un día, decidió dejar el mundo de la publicidad para emprender un rumbo propio, más artístico y personal. Desde entonces, diseña productos originales, escribe e ilustra libros e imparte cursos de creatividad y emociones.

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Terry Pierce

TERRY PIERCE is the author of over twenty-seven children's books, including Hello, Meadow!, Eat Up, Bear!, Love Can Come in Many Ways, Soccer Time!, Mother Earth's Lullaby, Mama Loves You So, My Busy Green Garden, Blackberry Banquet, and Tae Kwon Do! (Random House Step-Into-Reading, Bank Street College Best Children's Books 2007).

A former Montessori teacher, she now writes full-time and teaches online children's writing courses through the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

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Julie Fogliano

Julie Fogliano has spent her entire life reading children's books. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and three children.

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Adam Lehrhaupt

Adam Lehrhaupt is the award-winning author of Warning: Do Not Open This Book!, Please: Open This Book!, Chicken in Space (A six book series: Book 2 Chicken in School lands June 20, 2017), I Will Not Eat You and the upcoming I Don't Draw, I Color (March 21, 2016), Wordplay (July 2017), Idea Jar (Fall 2017), and This is a Good Story (Spring, 2018). He has traveled to six continents, performed on Broadway, and lived on a communal farm. He firmly believes that opening a book is a good thing, even if there are monkeys in it. Adam currently lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, with his wife, two sons, and two bizarre dogs. Follow Adam on twitter and Instagram @lehrhaupt for the occasional brilliant thought or picture, and at adamlehrhaupt.co

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Alan Durant

Alan Durant is the author of books for a wide age-range, from picture books such as Burger Boy to top-end teenage thrillers (Blood, Flesh and Bones). Having worked as a copywriter at Walker Books, he is now a full-time author.

He's married, with three children and lives just outside London. He does a lot of school visits throughout the UK and abroad and also runs writing workshops.

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Amy Schwartz

Amy Schwartz is the author and illustrator of many picture books for children, including Begin at the Beginning; Things I Learned in Second Grade; Bea and Mr. Jones, a Reading Rainbow feature; What James Likes Best, recipient of the 2004 Charlotte Zolotow Award; and a glorious day. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Leonard S. Marcus, and their son, Jacob.

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K.A. Reynolds

K. A. Reynolds is an award winning author, writing books for kids and adults. Her latest upper middle grade book, IZZY AT THE END OF THE WORLD, was a YALSA/ALA best fiction for Young Adults 2024. She is an anxious, neurodivergent, widow and author writing mental health/neurodiverse positive books. Born and bred in Winnipeg, Canada, Kristin has a thing for dead poets, ushering creepy crawly things with numerous legs out of houses, and writing dark and magical tales for all. Despite her innocent appearance, she has been described on more than one occasion as the following: strange, grim, fierce, dreamer, poet, lover of the fantastic, indulger of the macabre, and more often than not, witch.

K.A has been published in several poetry journals and

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Cathy Ytak

Cathy Ytak was born in France in 1962. Both of her parents were teachers. She grew up in Paris but spent her vacations in the Jura Mountains, near Switzerland. Later on, she lived for a few months in Brazil, then in Barcelona, Spain.

She began writing stories as soon as she knew how to read and write. She has always loved books. When she was 15, she quit high school to attend a technical college where she studied book production and earned a diploma in bookbinding. By the time she was 18, she was working at various jobs such as sorting mail, housecleaning, bookbinding, etc. She worked for seven years as a sales assistant in a photo shop, which she enjoyed very much.

At the age of 27, she went back to school to study Catalan and to become a tr

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Gaël Aymon

Gaël Aymon a commencé sa carrière en tant que comédien puis scénariste et réalisateur.
Il produit ou distribue des films, spectacles et concerts, et enseigne le théâtre aux enfants et adolescents.
Ses premiers livres pour la jeunesse sont publiés à partir de 2010.

Gaël Aymon is an author, screenwriter, film director and producer born in Paris, France.
Having first embarked on a career in acting and directing, he has worked as a producer and distributor for the cinema and theatre.
He was first published as a children's author in 2010.

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Juliana Perdomo

Juliana Perdomo is a Columbian illustrator and writer, with a background as a psychologist and art therapist. Her work is joyful, heartfelt, and folkish—a bit retro with a Latin touch. She has participated in different projects as an illustrator, this book being her debut in the USA. Juliana lives in Bogotá, Columbia, with her amazing son, Luca, and a crazy old dog called Menta.

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Uzma Aslam Khan

Uzma Aslam Khan is the prize-winning author of five novels published worldwide. These include Trespassing, translated in 18 languages and recipient of a Commonwealth Prize nomination; The Geometry of God, a Kirkus Reviews' Best Book of 2009; Thinner Than Skin, nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and winner of the French Embassy Prize for Best Fiction at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. Her work has twice won a Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Prize, and appeared in Granta, The Massachusetts Review, Australian Book Review, Nimrod, AGNI, Calyx, and Guardian UK, among many other periodicals.

Khan’s fifth novel, The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, is set in the British penal settlement

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Jumko Ogata

Es una escritora, traductora y divulgadora de antirracismo originaria de Xalapa, Veracruz. Estudió la licenciatura en Estudios Latinoamericanos en la UNAM. Formó parte de la antología Tsunami 2, publicada por Sexto Piso en 2020 así como Daughters of Latin America publicado por HarperCollins en 2023. Es autora de Mi pelo chino, un libro infantil bilingüe publicado por la editorial Almadía. Es traductora de Experimentos en Alegría, un libro de ejercicios creado por mujeres negras artistas de performance, publicado por Co-Conspirator Press en 2023. Asimismo, es traductora de Hermanas del ñame. Mujeres negras y nuestra recuperación de bell hooks. Ha impartido talleres sobre antirracismo para Facebook, el Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura, y o

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