
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).
AWARDS
MANHATTAN: MAPPING THE STORY OF AN ISLAND ~ 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book
GRANDMA GATEWOOD HIKES THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL ~ 2020 Norman A. Sugarman Children’s Biography Award Honor Book
INTERVIEWS
–*NEW!* Watch a StoryMakers episode about MANHATTAN on KidLit TV
– Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
– Miss Marple’s Musings – Illustrator Interview
–Kathy Temean’s Writing and Illustrating Blog – Illustrator Saturday
– Sub It Club – The May Postcard Post and a follow-up
– The Little Crooked Cottage – Mr. Pig visits… Jennifer Thermes!
SELECT CLIENTS
Abrams Books for Young Readers, Albert Whitman & Company, Clarion Books, Crown Books for Young Readers,
Dial Books for Young Readers, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Holiday House, Holt/Christy Ottaviano Books,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Islandport Press, Random House Children’s Books, Sleeping Bear Press