Interview With: Award Winning Author Dr. Janay Brown Wood

JaNay Brown-Wood, PhD, is an award-winning 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. She also has several poems published in Highlights for Kids, Highlights High Five, and various poetry anthologies, and she has published over twenty books including the popular picture book series Where in the Garden, the New York Times Bestselling book Why Not You? (Penguin/Random House) which she collaborated with Ciara and Russell Wilson, and her chapter book series Love Puppies. JaNay lives in California with her husband Catrayel, her daughter Vivian, and their turtle, Theodora. Website : www.janaybrownwood.com