Jennifer Thermes is a children's book author and illustrator, and a map illustrator. Jennifer weaves maps that give a sense of geography and place into her stories., She is fascinated by the big picture of history and how it connects to our lives today. In her free time, Jennifer likes to walk, garden, read, draw and figure out where to put her ever-growing piles of books. She lives with her family in a quirky antique farmhouse in Connecticut, USA. Her recent picture book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island was a 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a Junior Library Guild Selection.

'Readers fascinated by the sea or by our least-populated continent will find this biography gripping ... A story of bitter cold infused with warmth and with the fighting spirit of its courageous subject'

Jennifer Thermes is a children's book author and illustrator, and a map illustrator. Jennifer weaves maps that give a sense of geography and place into her stories., She is fascinated by the big picture of history and how it connects to our lives today. In her free time, Jennifer likes to walk, garden, read, draw and figure out where to put her ever-growing piles of books. She lives with her family in a quirky antique farmhouse in Connecticut, USA. Her recent picture book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island was a 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a Junior Library Guild Selection.

'Readers fascinated by the sea or by our least-populated continent will find this biography gripping ... A story of bitter cold infused with warmth and with the fighting spirit of its courageous subject'

Jennifer Thermes is a children's book author and illustrator, and a map illustrator. Jennifer weaves maps that give a sense of geography and place into her stories., She is fascinated by the big picture of history and how it connects to our lives today. In her free time, Jennifer likes to walk, garden, read, draw and figure out where to put her ever-growing piles of books. She lives with her family in a quirky antique farmhouse in Connecticut, USA. Her recent picture book Manhattan: Mapping the Story of an Island was a 2020 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book and a Junior Library Guild Selection.

'Readers fascinated by the sea or by our least-populated continent will find this biography gripping ... A story of bitter cold infused with warmth and with the fighting spirit of its courageous subject'