As a nature lover and an “animal person” with an insatiable curiosity, writing about environmental topics suits Jennifer perfectly. Her passion reverberates clearly in her children’s books.  Teachers and students even call her “The Green Author.”

As a child, Jennifer regularly brought home creatures large and small and attempted to nurse them back to health, although not always to great success.She learned that in order to truly help them, she not only needed more information, but the best way to use it. She is now using that supportive spirit to teach children how they can help wild animals, one at a time.  

Her informational and educational books include:

Forthcoming:

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Certified wildlife rehabilitators like Suzanne McBride work hard to ensure that otters and other wild animals can get back to the wild where they belong. However, in some cases, that simply isn’t possible.



Since Bubbles and Squeak were un-releasable, they now happily reside at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons Island, Maryland, where they are doted on by aquarists and fans! Jennifer worked with the staff at the museum, as well as Suzanne McBride, to write the realistic fiction, Saving Squeak: The Otter Tale.

River otter, Squeak, star of the book Saving Squeak checks out a young visitor at the Calvert Marine Museum. (Squeak’s “brother” Bubbles is swimming lazily beneath him).