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Glenda Armand

GLENDA ARMAND has had a long career as a teacher and school librarian and enjoys writing picture-book biographies that inspire children to dream big. Glenda is the author of the award-winning Love Twelve Miles Long, Ira’s Shakespeare Dream, and Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins. Her picture book Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese will be published by Crown Books for Young Readers in Fall 2022. When not writing or practicing the piano, Glenda tends a garden full of succulents and roses. She lives in Los Angeles, and you can learn more about her at glenda-armand.com.

JAN GERARDI is the illustrator of over eighty books for children. She is also the author-illustrator of The Little Gardener, an eco-friendly board book in the Teenie Greenies series. Jan Gerardi lives in New Jersey.
Down on the Bayou
The Night Before Freedom
Ice Cream Man
Cooking with the Birthday Bird
Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese

Books

Down on the Bayou
The Night Before Freedom
Ice Cream Man
Cooking with the Birthday Bird
Black-Eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese