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Meet the members of Picture Book Gold

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Julie Abery

Julie Abery is a former preschool teacher who shaped her career reading picture books to children from around the world. She has a passion for... Read More.

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Heather Bell

As a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community, Heather loves to portray diverse characters and gets especially excited for any story that... Read More.

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Anita Crawford Clark

Anita Crawford Clark is a writer and illustrator of fiction and nonfiction books for children. She is an inaugural recipient of the SCBWI OMA...Read More.

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Jill Dana

Jill Dana is an author, illustrator, award-winning filmmaker, and certified elementary educator. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Television and... Read More.

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Jolene Gutiérrez

Jolene Gutiérrez is an award-winning teacher-librarian who works with kids during the day and writes books for them at night... Read More.

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Vivian Kirkfield

Writer for children—reader forever…that’s Vivian Kirkfield. She’s been skydiving, parasailing, and around the world in less than 80... Read More.

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Laura Roettiger

Laura Roettiger is a reading specialist from Chicago, IL who weaves her passion for STEM learning into stories for children... Read More.

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Gina Soldano-Herrle

Gina Soldano-Herrle is a professional ghostwriter and author. She's very active in the children's writing community where she volunteers... Read More.

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Lynn Becker

Lynn Becker has been a reader and creator all her life. These days, when she’s not dreaming up picture books, she’s hiking, doing crazy-long... Read More.

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Molly Cranch

Molly Cranch is a children’s picture book author-illustrator, fine artist and educator living in Chicago, Illinois. She received a BFA in painting... Read More.

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Songju Daemicke

Songju Ma Daemicke, a former software engineer, grew up in China and is now a children’s book author living in the United States. She loves to... Read More.

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Tracy Gold

Tracy C. Gold loves writing about families and nature. She is an author, freelance editor, and mom living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her published... Read More

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Bonnie Kelso

Bonnie is an author illustrator from Las Vegas, Nevada. Even though she lives in the desert, she is obsessed with the ocean...Read More.

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Marta Magellan

Marta Magellan was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived in Miami, Florida since the age of seven, with a few years in Japan and Brazil... Read More.

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Lisa Rogers

Lisa Rogers is an award-winning author who was inspired to write for children during her career as an elementary school librarian. She... Read More.

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Judith Valdés B.

Born and raised in a Mexican town of vibrant colors and traditions, Judith Valdés B. is an Mexican-American author and... Read More.

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