JENNIFER THERMES is a map illustrator and the award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children.

Her nonfiction picture book, Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island, received five starred reviews, was an NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book, a Junior Library Guild Selection, and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Jennifer weaves maps throughout her stories in order to give readers a sense of geography and place. She is fascinated by the big picture of history and how it connects the past with our lives today. She lives in New England.

To learn more please visit Twitter (@jenthermes) and Instagram (@jenniferthermes).