JaNay Brown-Wood
BIO
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. JaNay is also the author of over twenty-five books including the popular picture book 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! Additionally, JaNay is featured in several educational web-videos including Cooking with JaNay and Jammies with JaNay. JaNay lives in California with her husband Catrayel, her daughter Vivian, and her turtle Theodora.
BROWN GIRLS DO BALLET
This stunning children’s book from the photographer behind the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet, TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian, combines irresistible photos of young ballerinas of color with inspirational text written by JaNay Brown Wood that empowers all children to express their true selves through movement and music.
JAM TOO?
A drum circle is forming on the beach, and one fascinated child would love to join in. Soon there’s everything from a conga’s pat-a-pat-a, pat pat to some bongos’ taka taka, ta ta—and it looks like so much fun! But what do you do when you don’t have a drum? Well, when you let the music move you, you just might find other ways to jam, too!
Written by JaNay Brown Wood and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara Jam Too? with lustrous illustrations and a rhythmic text featuring a cumulative list of sounds bring to life the thrill of an impromptu jam session and the joy of making music together.