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Jennifer Holm

Jennifer L. Holm is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling children’s author with nearly ten million books in print. She is the recipient of three Newbery Honors for her novels Our Only May Amelia, Penny from Heaven, and Turtle in Paradise, and the Scott O’Dell Award for Full of Beans.

Holm collaborates with her brother, Matthew Holm, on several graphic novel series including the Eisner Award–winning Babymouse series, the Sunny series, and the Squish series, which was adapted into an animated series by Cottonwood Media and aired on HBO Max.

Her latest novel, Outside, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. She lives in California with her husband, two children, and three cats named Augustus, Livia, and Calpurnia.