Jennifer E. Morris is an award-winning children’s book author and illustrator. She is the author of 16 books for children. Her best-selling book, May I Please Have a Cookie? has sold over one and a half million copies worldwide. And her book, Flubby Is Not a Good Pet! was a Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor recipient. Her illustrations have been featured in children’s magazines, greeting cards, partyware and educational materials as well as numerous picture books.

Jennifer also has a nerdy side and has a bachelors in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh and a masters of computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology. She volunteers with FIRST Lego League (FLL) robotics competition for elementary and middle grade students and was an FLL coach for many years.

Clients include Amscan, Highlights, Cricket Magazine Group, Scholastic, Fisher Price, Great Arrow Graphics, Penguin Random House, Amazon Two Lions Publishing, Sleeping Bear Press, Heinemann, Lifeway and Tilbury House Publishers.

Jennifer is also a member of the National Cartoonists Society.

• Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor (Flubby is Not a Good Pet!)
• Monarch Readers Choice Award Nominee (Ducks Run Amok!)
• Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection (Flubby is Not a Good Pet!)
• Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection (Flubby Will Not Play With That)
• Cybil Finalist for Best Easy Reader (Fish Are Not Afraid of Doctors)
• The Moonbeam Award for Peacemaking (Most People)
• Maine Literary Award Best Children’s Book (The Lemonade Hurricane)
• Notable Social Studies Trade Book For Young People 2016 CBC and NCSS (The Lemonade Hurricane)
• Gelett Burgess Honor Book (The Lemonade Hurricane)
• 2015 3×3 International Illustration Awards Certificate of Merit
• Cybil Finalist for Best Easy Reader (Steve and Wessley in The Ice Cream Shop)
• Gluten-Free Awards Best Gluten-Free Children’s Book 2015 (A Gluten-Free Birthday for Me!)
• 2007 SCBWI Don Freeman Memorial Grant
• Maryland Blue Crab Young Reader Awards Honor Book (May I Please Have a Cookie?)
• Louie Award for Best Mother’s Day Card
• Louie Award for Best St. Patrick’s Day Card

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