Our Authors and Illustrators

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  • Xelena González headshot. Xelena has long, black hair and wears dangly earrings and a floral shirt.
    Xelena González

    Xelena González practices the healing arts through writing and movement. She is a storyteller, dancer, and visiting author who centers self-love in her multi-disciplinary workshops for all ages. Her award-winning...
  • Katharine Goodwin

    Katharine Goodwin is the author of In Search of Cinderella: A Curriculum for the 21st Century, a companion workbook to the Cinderella series from Shen’s Books.
  • Julian Grafenauer

    Julian Grafenauer​, Anishinaabe, member of Ditibineya-ziibiing (Rolling River) First Nation, Treaty 4 Territory. Julian is the Lead Illustrator and Graphic Designer at Indigenous Education Press (IEP). Julian’s distinct design and...
  • Kesha L. Grant

    Kesha L. Grant is an educator and children’s book author. During her twenty years as an educator, Kesha struggled to find books that represented the rich cultural diversity of her...
  • Sharol Graves

    Sharol Graves is a multimedia artist who creates innovative paintings, serigraphs and computer-generated artworks. She studied art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico during...
  • Sharol Graves headshot. Sharol is holding a book and reading aloud.
    Sharol Graves

    Sharol Graves is a multimedia artist who creates innovative paintings, serigraphs and computer-generated artworks. She studied art at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico during...
  • Eloise Greenfield

    Eloise Greenfield is a celebrated poet and the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and biography for children, including the Coretta Scott King Award winner Africa Dream,...
  • Roseanne Greenfield Thong

    Roseanne Greenfield Thong was born in Southern California where she currently works as a teacher, editor, and educational consultant. She lived in Asia for twenty years where she studied Mandarin,...
  • Mark Greenwood

    Mark Greenwood is the author of numerous children’s books published in both the United States and his native Australia, several of which were created in collaboration with his wife, illustrator...
  • Nikki Grimes

    Nikki Grimes, New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred books for young people, is well-known for the poetry that appears in both her picture books and novels....
  • Claudia Guadalupe Martínez

    Claudia Guadalupe Martínez has called Mexico and the US home. Her core childhood memories are set in El Paso, Texas. This dynamic of growing up between borders inspires her writing....
  • Claudia Guadalupe Martínez

    Claudia Guadalupe Martínez has called Mexico and the US home. Her core childhood memories are set in El Paso, Texas. This dynamic of growing up between borders inspires her writing....
  • Monica Gunning

    Monica Gunning was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and immigrated to the United States to work and further her education. After graduating, she became a teacher in the Los Angeles...
  • Adam Gustavson

    Adam Gustavson has illustrated more than twenty highly praised books for children. In spite of his lack of baseball-playing skill, Gustavson enthusiastically embraced William Hoy’s story and spent months researching...
  • Christy Hale

    Christy Haleis the author and illustrator of several acclaimed children’s books, including four published by Lee & Low, and she has illustrated numerous other award-winning picture books as well. Hale...
  • Janet Halfmann

    Janet Halfmann is the author of more than forty books for children, including Lee & Low’s Midnight Teacher, which Kirkus called “An excellent homage to an African-American woman who taught...
  • Megan Halsey

    Megan Halsey has a master’s degree in illustration from Marywood University. She has almost twenty-five years of professional art experience and has illustrated forty-five books. Aside from illustrating, Megan also...
  • Soma Han

    Soma Han was born in the agricultural southeastern part of the Korean peninsula. She has a BA in literature and a BFA degree from the California College of Arts &...