JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning and New York Times Best-Selling 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 her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story! won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. Additionally, JaNay has over twenty books published including the popular picture book series Where in the Garden, the Harriet Tubman and Simone Biles Little Golden Book Biographies, the Scholastic chapter book series Love Puppies, and the highly praised picture book Jam, Too! JaNay is also featured in several educational web-videos including Cooking with JaNay and Jammies with JaNay and she travels the country presenting to children, teachers, librarians, administrators, and community members about the importance of diverse children’s books and best ways to support the development. JaNay lives in California with her husband Catrayel, her daughter Vivian, and her turtle Theodora.
JaNay is represented by Karen Grencik.
