Jennifer E. Morris

Jennifer E. Morris

Jennifer E. Morris

Award Winning Children's Book Illustrator & Author

Jennifer E. Morris is an award-winning illustrator living in Massachusetts. She has illustrated children’s magazines, greeting cards, partyware and educational materials as well as numerous picture books. She is also an author and has written several children’s books including the Maud the Koala series,  the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor book, Flubby is Not a Good Pet! in the Flubby series, Ducks Run Amok!, and her new book, Sharing is UnBEARable! Her best-selling title, May I Please Have a Cookie?, has sold over one million copies.

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.

Learn to Draw Flubby in her fun workshop at Kids Con!

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Awards

  • 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