About

This is me, Anna. I write picture books.

I love nothing better than to stumble onto a funny idea or a great question, then hold on tight as it leads me through books, my imagination, and unexpected nooks and crannies of the real world. I spend a lot of time outdoors — walking, paddling, biking, gardening or cross-country skiing — and many of my writing journeys spring from magical things I stumble on there.

My debut picture book, BAT COUNT (Arbordale, February 2017), is a fic-informational story of bats, citizen science and hope. It received the 2018 Giverny Award and the 2018-19 Keystone to Reading Book Award, and was named a 2018 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12 by the National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council, and included on the CCBC Choices 2018 list. (yippee!)

I have taught kindergarten, second grade and middle school, as well as college and graduate students, and am trained as a landscape architect. In my non-writing life I make landscapes for play in Philadelphia, where I live with my husband, two daughters, and two rescue dogs.