About the Author
JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning children’s author, poet, educator, scholar, and a former professor of Early Childhood Education and Child Development. Her first children’s book
Imani’s Moon won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award and was featured on Stephen Colbert’s
The Late Show and Storytime with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her second book.
Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story!. received a starred review from
Publishers Weekly and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. JaNay is also the author of the popular picture book series
Where in the Garden (Peachtree Publishing), four
Chicken Soup for the Soul Babies/Kids books,
Crayola’s Follow That Line! Magic at Your Fingertips (Running Press Kids, 2022), the Harriet Tubman Little Golden Book Biography, the Simone Biles Little Golden Book Biography. and the
New York Times bestselling book
Why Not You? (Penguin/Random House) on which she collaborated with Ciara and Russell Wilson. You can learn more about her at
http://www.janaybrownwood.com.
