Jennifer Ward (author)
Jennifer Ward is an American children's picture book author. Many of her books focus on science, nature and the Sonoran Desert. Ward has a B.A. in education from the University of Arizona.
Her books have been translated into many languages and have received the International Reading Association's / CBC Children's Choice Award, the American Booksellers Association Book Sense Summer Pick, a Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award for Best Children's Picture Book, a Parents' Choice Award, a Governor's Selection for the states of New Jersey and Arizona, the Grand Canyon Reader Award, among other honors. Her book, There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea has been integrated into the architecture at the Buckeye Public Library in Buckeye, Arizona.
