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Larry Dane Brimner

Larry Dane Brimner is the recipient of the 2018 Robert F. Sibert Award for the most distinguished informational book for children for his title Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961. He is known for his well-researched, innovative, and award-winning nonfiction for young readers, and is the author of multiple acclaimed civil rights titles, including Strike!: The Farm Workers' Fight for Their Rights; and Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor.

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Meera Sriram

Meera Sriram draws from her life straddling the East and West to tell stories. She is an award-winning author of several picture books including A GIFT FOR AMMA, DUMPLING DAY, A GARDEN IN MY HANDS, and THE SPICE BOX. Her books have been selected Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal, APALA (Asian Pacific American Librarians Association), and Bank Street College, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus, SLJ, and Publishers Weekly. Her work has been included in several state reading lists, featured in The New York Times, and has been translated into many different languages. Meera loves woodsy hikes and urban murals, and lives with her family in Berkeley, California. For more information, please visit: http://www.meerasriram.c

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Roxanne Troup

With a background in early childhood education, Roxanne Troup writes kids books that inspire wonder and celebrate family. She also writes engaging nonfiction for children of all ages. Roxanne loves spending time with her family hiking or at sporting events. She enjoys visiting schools to promote literacy, teach about writing, and inspire the next generation of explorers and scientists.

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Sita Jit

Sita Jit is a children’s book author
and elementary school teacher. Just
like Divya, she grew up close with her
extended family in Canada and India.
In her free time, Sita loves to read, listen
to music, and play board games.

Hear my name: https://namedrop.io/sitajit

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Cherry Mo

Cherry Mo grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the United States at the age of ten. HOME IN A LUNCHBOX is her debut picture book and was inspired by her first days of school in America. Cherry writes and illustrates stories that she hopes bring young readers a sense of comfort and belonging.

Praises for HOME IN A LUNCHBOX:

Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

July/August 2024 Kids' Indie Next List Pick

"In an exceptional debut, Mo deploys digital illustrations that expertly use selective coloring to depict an experience of finding common ground." — Starred review from Publisher's Weekly

"Inspired by Mo's move from Hong Kong to the United States at the age of 10, this remarkable story about finding comfort in a new home by bringing along fam

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Leah Moser

Leah Moser is a children’s book author living in Virginia. With degrees in Elementary Education and Psychology, Leah has spent years as a classroom teacher. She loves sharing her passion for picture books with her husband, three daughters, dog, and readers of all ages. I Am a Thundercloud is her debut book.

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Lakshmi Thamizhmani

CBA Grad and SCBWI member, Lakshmi Thamizhmani divides her time between her corporate tech job, daydreaming, and writing. After moving from India to the United States, she initially wrote for newspapers but discovered a passion for creative writing instead. Lakshmi now writes beautiful, lesser-known stories of immigrant experiences to bridge cultures and transport children to new worlds to learn and celebrate diversity. She lives in California with her husband and two daughters.

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Kimberly Wilson

Kimberly Wilson grew up with a butterfly trapper keeper full of stories, an overflowing bookshelf, and a pocket thesaurus. But it took many years, and a couple careers, before she pursued her dream of writing for children.

A lover of puns and wordplay, Kimberly enjoys mixing humor, heart, and educational details into her writing. Her picture book, A PENNY’S WORTH, illustrated by Mark Hoffman, debuts with Page Street Kids in 2022.

When not writing, Kimberly enjoys visiting schools, volunteering with literacy nonprofits, playing tennis, and practicing yoga. Even though her trapper keeper is long gone, her book collection continues to multiply, and her thesaurus…now there’s an app for that!

Kimberly lives in North Carolina with her husband a

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Moni Ritchie Hadley

Moni Ritchie Hadley, a half-Japanese, military brat bounced back and forth from the USA to Japan as a child. Daydreaming was a favorite pastime. She received a BA in Psychology at UCLA and later became a home/hospital teacher for the LAUSD, where she taught students with medical needs. Today she lives in Los Angeles, where she turns her sky-gazing daydreams into stories for children.
Also published in Highlights Magazine, THE STAR FESTIVAL is her picture book debut.

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Leslie Barnard Booth

Leslie Barnard Booth writes lyrical picture books about science and nature. She is the author of One Day This Tree Will Fall and A Stone Is a Story, both of which were named Outstanding Science Trade Books by the National Science Teaching Association and Children's Book Council. Her next book, I Am We: How Crows Come Together to Survive, releases in fall 2025. Leslie lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family. Visit her at lesliebarnardbooth.com.

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Shannon Anderson

Shannon Anderson has taught for 25 years, from first grade through college level. Her career highlight was being named one of the Top 10 Teachers who inspired the Today Show.
She is an award-winning children's book author, TEDx speaker, certified brain coach, and frequent keynote speaker. She LOVES to do author visits and coach aspiring writers. You can visit her website at www.shannonisteaching.com to find out more!

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Tonya Duncan Ellis

Tonya Duncan Ellis is author of THEY BUILT ME FOR FREEDOM (HarperCollins, Balzer + Bray, 2024) and the SOPHIE WASHINGTON children’s chapter series. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), the Authors Guild, and the Brown Bookshelf’s Highlights Foundation-sponsored Amplify Black Stories storyteller cohort. Tonya has spoken and taught at writing conferences at the Highlights Foundation and for SCBWI in New York City and for SCBWI Houston and Austin, TX chapters. A former journalist and freelance magazine writer, she lives in Houston, Texas.

www.tonyaduncanellis.com
Facebook: @tonyaellisbooks
Instagram: @tonyaellisbooks

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Debbie S. Miller

Debbie S Miller has lived in Alaska for 40 years, and has developed a passion for writing nature books about the extraordinary wilderness and wildlife that surround our home near Fairbanks. When she looks out my office window, she may see a moose walking by, chickadees or gray jays at the bird feeder, or a fox on the prowl.

During the early years, Debbie taught school in Arctic Village, a small village in the Brooks Range. She learned about the fascinating culture of the Athabaskan Indians, the natural history of the region, and the wonders of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. For many years Debbie's family explored this incredible place, studied the great caribou herds, and observed wolves, grizzly and polar bears, migratory bir

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Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle was an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, including A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science.

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Leah Moser

Leah Moser is a children’s book author living in Virginia. With degrees in Elementary Education and Psychology, Leah has spent years as a classroom teacher. She loves sharing her passion for picture books with her husband, three daughters, dog, and readers of all ages. I Am a Thundercloud is her debut book.

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Julie Hedlund

Julie Hedlund is an award-winning children's book author. Her latest book is OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? (Philomel, 2021). SONG AFTER SONG: THE MUSICAL LIFE OF JULIE ANDREWS (Little Bee Books, 2023) releases September 5, 2023. She is also the author of, MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE SUN, and A TROOP IS A GROUP OF MONKEYS. reading, writing, or traveling, Julie is busy writing more books and visiting with the kids who read them at schools and libraries.

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Megan Hoyt

Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home, and Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk. Her award-winning picture book biography, BARTALI'S BICYCLE, with Harper Collins Children's Books' new imprint, Quill Tree Books, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL, KATI'S TINY MESSENGERS, AND A GRAND IDEA followed, also with Quill Tree Books. TZIMMES FOR TZIPPORAH, her first Jewish-themed picture book came out in 2023 with Apples and Honey Press. Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019). Her first picture book, HILDEGARD'S GIFT, came out in 2

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Roxanne Troup

With a background in early childhood education, Roxanne Troup writes kids books that inspire wonder and celebrate family. She also writes engaging nonfiction for children of all ages. Roxanne loves spending time with her family hiking or at sporting events. She enjoys visiting schools to promote literacy, teach about writing, and inspire the next generation of explorers and scientists.

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Debbie S. Miller

Debbie S Miller has lived in Alaska for 40 years, and has developed a passion for writing nature books about the extraordinary wilderness and wildlife that surround our home near Fairbanks. When she looks out my office window, she may see a moose walking by, chickadees or gray jays at the bird feeder, or a fox on the prowl.

During the early years, Debbie taught school in Arctic Village, a small village in the Brooks Range. She learned about the fascinating culture of the Athabaskan Indians, the natural history of the region, and the wonders of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. For many years Debbie's family explored this incredible place, studied the great caribou herds, and observed wolves, grizzly and polar bears, migratory bir

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Shannon Anderson

Shannon Anderson has taught for 25 years, from first grade through college level. Her career highlight was being named one of the Top 10 Teachers who inspired the Today Show.
She is an award-winning children's book author, TEDx speaker, certified brain coach, and frequent keynote speaker. She LOVES to do author visits and coach aspiring writers. You can visit her website at www.shannonisteaching.com to find out more!

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Moni Ritchie Hadley

Moni Ritchie Hadley, a half-Japanese, military brat bounced back and forth from the USA to Japan as a child. Daydreaming was a favorite pastime. She received a BA in Psychology at UCLA and later became a home/hospital teacher for the LAUSD, where she taught students with medical needs. Today she lives in Los Angeles, where she turns her sky-gazing daydreams into stories for children.
Also published in Highlights Magazine, THE STAR FESTIVAL is her picture book debut.

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Melissa Stiveson

Author also writes under Melissa D. Stiveson

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Sita Jit

Sita Jit is a children’s book author
and elementary school teacher. Just
like Divya, she grew up close with her
extended family in Canada and India.
In her free time, Sita loves to read, listen
to music, and play board games.

Hear my name: https://namedrop.io/sitajit

DIVYA FAR FROM HOME

DIVYA'S SUPERSECRET PLAN

Follow me on Instagram: @sitajit

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Bonni Goldberg

Bonni Goldberg is an award-winning, best-selling writer, educator, artist, and innovator. Since she was 10 years old and her teacher, Mrs. Thaine, introduced her to poems, she's never stopped writing. Bonni uses words and images to empower children and adults to celebrate and make sense of themselves, others, and communities near and far (in time, locale, and imagination). Through Kidlit (picture books to middle grade) like Dona Gracia Saved Worlds and non-fiction books for adults (writing advice and other inspirational topics) like The Write Balance & Room to Write, Bonni supports creativity, courage, pleasure, and resilience while bringing unsung heroes and Jewish joy to light.
A crowd-pleasing presenter, Bonni is available for school vis

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Lakshmi Thamizhmani

CBA Grad and SCBWI member, Lakshmi Thamizhmani divides her time between her corporate tech job, daydreaming, and writing. After moving from India to the United States, she initially wrote for newspapers but discovered a passion for creative writing instead. Lakshmi now writes beautiful, lesser-known stories of immigrant experiences to bridge cultures and transport children to new worlds to learn and celebrate diversity. She lives in California with her husband and two daughters.

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