5/11/2023 0 Comments Are You a Bee? by Judy AllenJudy Allen, along with illustrator Tudor Humphries, created Kingfishers award-winning Backyard Books series and many other successful books, including the Reading Rainbow selections Tiger and Seal. She lives in Raleigh, NC, with her family. Judy Allen is an award-winning author whose novel Awaiting Developments was short-listed for the Whitbread Childrens Novel Award. From history to the fantastical, we’ll explore new adventurous worlds together.” Her recent book, Escape From Hurricane Katrina (Little Bee Book, July 2021), is a 2021 Junior Library Guild selection. “The best part about writing for young people is that I get to take them on journeys that will positively impact their lives forever. Her passion is to give Black children books where they see characters that look like them and know that they too can aspire to be great. Through her lens of an authentic and experienced voice, Judy’s purpose is to teach young children about Black history through the stories of unsung heroes. A young bee faces many challenges as it takes its place in the hive and joins in the work of the bee community. The winner of the 2016 SCBWI On-the-Verge Emerging Voices Award and a recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Grant, she’s a member of SCBWI, the regional co-ambassador for the Authors Guild, and a former member of the Coretta Scott King Archives and History Committee. Author Judy Allen and illustrator Tudor Humphries created Kingfishers award-winning Backyard Books series and many other successful books, including the. Backyard Books: Are You a Bee by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries shows that-from the perspective of a honeybee-the backyard is a busy place. Judy Allen Dodson is a librarian, archivist, and children’s book author.
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