Our Authors and Illustrators
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Jessica Lanan
Jessica Lanan is an award-winning author and artist from Longmont, Colorado. She’s the illustrator of many children’s books including Lee & Low Books’s The Story I’ll Tell which received two... -
Sarah Langford
Sarah Langford is currently a student at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She is especially interested in the health care needs of immigrants and refugees living in United States.... -
Rajani LaRocca
Rajani LaRocca is the author of many acclaimed novels and picture books for children, including Red, White, and Whole which received the Newbery Honor. She was born in Bangalore, India,... -
Amelia Lau Carling
Amelia Lau Carling was born and grew up in Guatemala, the youngest of six children of Chinese immigrants. Surrounded by family and customers in her parents’ general store, she learned... -
Gwendolyn Lavert
Dr. Gwendolyn Lavert is an educator and literacy consultant based in Bedford, Texas. She’s the author of more than twenty children’s books including Papa’s Mark, The Music in Derrick’s Heart,... -
Diane Lawson
Diane Lawson was born and raised in a spectacularly tiny town in Missouri. She studied medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine and did her residency in psychiatry... -
Georgina Lazaro
Georgina Lázaro adapted the English text of Alicia and the Hurricane into Spanish. She is a Puerto Rican poet who has written poems that introduce children to Frederico García Lorca,... -
Dorina Lazo Gilmore
Dorina Lazo Gilmore-Young grew up in a Filipino-Polynesian-Indian-Italian family in the kitchen with her mama, aunties and grandmas. Today, she loves to create recipes and share stories in the kitchen... -
Keunhee Lee
Keunhee Lee is a contributing illustrator for America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land. Dom and Keunhee Lee live in Demarest, New Jersey, with their two children. -
Emeline Lee
Emeline Lee grew up hearing stories about her grandfather’s work on the Apollo 11 moon landing, which inspired her own fascination with science. She studied English literature and environmental sustainability... -
Emeline Lee
Emeline Lee is an author of children’s literature. Her debut picture book, Bonnie’s Rocket, illustrated by Alina Chau and published by Lee & Low Books, is a STEM-friendly story set... -
Amy Lee-Tai
Amy Lee-Tai was born in Queens, New York and is of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. She first learned of the internment from her mother and through her grandmother, Hisako Hibi’s... -
Rebecca Leer
Rebecca Leer has been a freelance illustrator for many years. Her illustrations and paintings have been awarded by organizations such as the New York Society of Illustrators, LA Society of... -
Karen Leggett Abouraya
Karen Leggett Abouraya is the author of Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books, which received the Arab American Book Award and a California Reading Association’s Eureka! Book Award... -
Júlio Leitão
Júlio Leitão was born in Luena, Angola. He came to the United States in 1985 and has taught dance for more than fifteen years. Leitão founded Batoto Yetu, an African... -
Susan Lendroth
Susan Lendroth enjoys telling tales set in the past and has written two previous picture books. She lives in the Los Angeles area with her daughter and an ill-mannered orange... -
Frane Lessac
Frané Lessac has illustrated more than thirty-five books for young readers, several of which she has also written. Born in New Jersey, Lessac later lived on the island of Montserrat....
