Jennifer K. Mann

Agent: Erica Rand Silverman

I am an award winning children’s book author and illustrator who lives on an island in beautiful Puget Sound with my husband, two cats named Tiny and Jack, and one goofy dog named Zephyr. I have young adult children who come and go.

I once was an architect, and spent many years designing stores for a big architecture firm in Seattle. Then I had children, and started reading beautiful picture books to them. I realized then that what I really wanted was to be a picture book author and illustrator.

I find inspiration for my stories and art from memories of childhood, my children’s antics and adventures, and the often silly goings-on of our domestic menagerie.

I have written and illustrated Two Speckled Eggs which won the 2015 Washington State Book Award, I Will Never Get a Star on Mrs. Benson's Blackboard, Sam and Jump, Josies’s Lost Tooth, and The Camping Trip, which won the 2020 Washington State Book Award, all from Candlewick Press. I have illustrated Maple and Rosemary, by Alison James, Climbing the Volcano, by Curtis Manley, and Good Morning, Morning! by Maya Meyers, all three published by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House, as well as Percy, Dog of Destiny, written by Alison McGhee, published by Boyds Mill Press, and Turkey Tot, written by George Shannon, published by Holiday House.

I am also the illustrator of the wonderful Audrey L and Audrey W chapter books by Carter Higgins, published by Chronicle Books.

Coming Spring of 2026 is Good Morning, Morning!, written and illustrated by me, and published by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House.

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