JaNay Brown-Wood

Dr. JaNay Brown-Wood is an award-winning children’s author, educator, and scholar. She is former a Professor of Child and Adolescent Development and Early Childhood Education and thoroughly enjoys teaching and conducting research. Her research investigates how the lack of diversity in children’s literature affects young learners, their literacy-related and academic outcomes, and the development of biases, and she also explores messages and content inherent in published books for children. Dr. Brown-Wood has received numerous awards such as the AERA Minority Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, and the Society for Research in Child Development Black Caucus’s Early Career Grant for her scholarship. Additionally, Dr. Brown-Wood’s children’s books include Imani’s Moon which won the NAESP Children’s Book of the Year Award and was featured on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show and Storytime with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and her second book Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story! received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly and won the CELI Read Aloud Book Award. She has at least ten forthcoming picture books. Dr. Brown-Wood lives in California with her husband Catrayel and their daughter Vivian. Learn more about Dr. Brown-Wood on her website www.janayebrownwood.com.

Imani's moon Little Imani of the Maasai people longs to do something great, like touching the moon, but the other children just laugh at her.
Amara's farm There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
How to babysit your grown up : activities to do together An activity book for family fun that features science, crafts, nature and more as kids can lead a hands-on learning experience
Logan's Greenhouse The third title in JaNay Brown-Wood and Samara Hardy's Where in the Garden? picture book series stars Logan, a young boy who uses a wheelchair and accessible tools while gardening in his greenhouse. Playful text guides young readers to hunt for visual clues and compare and contrast the unique characteristics of carrots against sweet potatoes, leeks, turnips, and other produce that grows in Logan's greenhouse.
Shhh! The baby's asleep Baby is finally asleep, and Mama is trying to shush the rest of the family; but when they are all finally quiet baby wakes up--and it is up to big brother Dante to find the right book to read so everyone can get some rest.
Miguel's community garden Miguel has many plants in his community garden, and today he must find his sunflowers. Let's help Miguel look for them!
Grandma's tiny house : a counting story! In rhyming text, when the whole family and guests show up for the big dinner at Grandma's house, it becomes clear that the house is much too small to hold them all.
Linh's rooftop garden Linh searches for blueberries in her rooftop garden. Includes recipe for blueberry and banana pancakes.
Chicken soup for the soul KIDS : will Mia take her shot?: a book about trying new things Mia is good at basketball and sticks to playing it even when her friends in the Sunshine Squad like to do other activities; trying new things makes Mia feel anxious about failing-that is, until Lily moves in and inspires Mia to go outside her comfort zone
Too-small Tyson As the smallest of five brothers, Tyson is used to being left out; but when the family's pet gerbil, Swish, escapes, Tyson's creative thinking and mathematical skills save the day.
Me. you. us: whose turn? Two baby penguins argue over who gets to play with a toy first, but when their sled runs away without them they learn the advantage of taking turns--or doing things together.
Fast AND slow: both just right! A sloth and a jaguar compare their preferred speeds and try to move at the other's speed, but eventually agree that their own speeds suit them best.

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