Julie Abery
Twitter: @juliedawnabery • Facebook: • Website: littleredstoryshed.wordpress.com
Julie Abery is an award-winning children’s author and former preschool teacher, who shaped her career by reading picture books to children from around the world.
Throughout the many years of teaching English to her classes in international schools, picture books have been her friends and allies bringing rhyme, rhythm, and repetition to the ears of her young students. She still occasionally teaches in French, where she shares her joy of picture books, storytelling, and song with her local community. It is the magic that picture books create for children that inspires her writing.
Originally from England, Julie now calls Switzerland home.
Board books: Little Animal Friends series: Little Tiger and Little Panda 2019, Little Hippo and Little Monkey 2020, Little Penguin and Little Zebra 2021, and Little Otter and Little Walrus 2023. Baby Dinosaur series: Baby T.Rex and Baby Stegosaurus 2023, and coming in 2024 Baby Triceratops and Baby Diplodocus.
Other publications include a nonfiction picture book biography entitled Yusra Swims from Creative Editions (February 2020); the true story The Old Man and the Penguin: A True Story of True Friendship, Kids Can Press (October 2020) and another nonfiction picture book Sakamoto’s Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory from Kids Can Press (May 2021).