Bookable Authors: Elementary Grades (Prek 2) Social Studies
Deborah Bodin Cohen
Rabbi Deborah Bodin Cohen is the author of many award-winning children’s books including Papa Jethro and Nachshon Who Was Afraid to Swim. She lives in Maryland with her husband and three children. View →
Jill Colella
Jill Colella is a former teacher, the author of many nutrition-themed books for children, and the founder of both Ingredient and Butternut, award-winning children’s magazines that promote food literacy. She lives in Minneapolis. View →
Stephanie Fizer Coleman
Stephanie Fizer Coleman is an illustrator, designer, and generally curious human being. She enjoys playing around with patterns, textures, and brilliant colors in her work. She lives with her husband in West Virginia. View →
Jennifer Cook
Jennifer Cook is the author of eight books, the “autism expert” on Netflix’s “Love On the Spectrum,” and an award-winning international speaker. She has advised at the White House and National Institutes of Health, and sits on the Autism Society of America’s View →
John Coy
John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and nonfiction and fiction picture books including Hoop Genius, Game Changer, Their Great Gift, Dads, and If We Were Gone. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, View →
Dion MBD
Dion MBD, because Dionisius Mehaga Bangun Djayasaputra is way too long to remember, is an Indonesian illustrator/designer who lives and works between Brooklyn and Bandung. Dion received his Illustration BFA from Ringling College of Art… View →
Jam Dong
Jam Dong was born in Shanghai, China. She has an MA degree of Moving Image at University of Arts London and graduated from MFA Illustration Practice of Maryland Institute College of Art in 2021. She likes to use bright colors and simple shapes to build the… View →
Julie Fortenberry
Julie Fortenberry is an abstract painter and a children’s book illustrator. She has a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College in New York, and lives in Philadelphia. View →
Laura Gehl
Laura Gehl is the award-winning author of more than three dozen picture books, board books, and early readers including Who Is a Scientist?, I Got a Chicken for My Birthday, Dibs!, and Climate Warriors: Fourteen Scientists and Fourteen Ways to Save our Planet. A former science teacher… View →
Claudine Gévry
Claudine Gévry’s love for books and drawing naturally led her to what she calls the best job on earth: children’s book illustrator. She has illustrated many books and is at her happiest when painting cute animals or lush plants. She lives between the mountains and the ocean… View →
Shannon Gibney
Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), and Dream Country (Dutton, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College, where she teaches writing. A Bush Artist and… View →
Krystyna Poray Goddu
Krystyna Poray Goddu has been a writer and editor for more than thirty years; her books include Dollmakers and Their Stories: Women Who Changed the World of Play, and A Girl Called Vincent: A Biography of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, both middle-grade nonfiction. Her writing for… View →
Barry Gott
Barry Gott lives in Ohio and has illustrated many children’s books, including all of the Dino-Sports and Dino-Holidays books. View →
Bridget Heos
Bridget Heos is the author of 13 young adult nonfiction books and the Expecting Animal Babies picture books. Prior to being a children’s book author, she wrote for several newspapers and magazines, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Kansas City Star, and Missouri Lawyers… View →
Gwendolyn Hooks
Gwendolyn Hooks writes fiction, nonfiction, and magazine articles from home. When not writing, Gwendolyn visits schools to share her passion for books with students. She is a frequent speaker at teacher and librarian conferences. View →
Wing Young Huie
Wing Young Huie photographs the dizzying socioeconomic and cultural realities of American society, much of it centered on the urban cores of his home state of Minnesota. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. View →
Heidi Smith Hyde
Heidi Smith Hyde is the director of education of Temple Sinai in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her books include Feivel’s Flying Horses, a National Jewish Book Award Finalist, and Mendel’s Accordion, winner of the Sugarman Award. View →
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline Jules is an award-winning author and poet. Her many children’s books include The Hardest Word (National Jewish Book Award finalist), What a Way to Start the New Year! A Rosh Hashanah Story, and Moses and the Runaway Lamb. She lives in Long Island, New York. View →
Susan B. Katz
Susan B. Katz is an award-winning, bestselling, Spanish bilingual author/illustrator. She has over a dozen published titles, including The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Meditation Station. She is based in California. View →
Cosei Kawa
Cosei Kawa is an award-winning Japanese artist. His many accolades include the CCBC Choices best-of-the-year list, the Sydney Taylor Book Award Silver Medal, and the Turry’s Picture Book Award. View →